When she’d sold her condo and then in one frantic week, auctioned off
every possession she owned—every stick of furniture, every pot and pan
and appliance—they’d been certain she’d gone over the edge.
Rebecca had never felt saner.
She owned nothing that didn’t fit in a suitcase. She no longer had any
tax-deferred investments or retirement plans. She’d cashed in her
certificates of deposit, and the home entertainment center she’d thought she
couldn’t live without was now gracing someone else’s home.
It had been more than six weeks since she’d even looked at an adding
machine.
For the first—and perhaps the only—time in her life, she was totally
free.
Impulse
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“Wait.” He held up a hand, wanting to be certain he understood
everything. “You’re telling me that you sold your possessions, all your
possessions?”
She couldn’t remember ever having felt more foolish, and she
straightened her shoulders defensively. “Right down to my coffeepot.”
“Amazing,” he murmured.
“I bought new clothes, new luggage, and flew to London. First-class.
I’d never been on a plane before in my life.”
“You’d never flown, but took your first trip across the Atlantic.”
Impulse
