On the other hand, Bennett had asked why she wasn’t involving him in decisions now that they were married. Somewhere on that spectrum, there had to be a happy compromise.
A twinge of guilt tensed her shoulders. Maybe she’d been a little short with him last night, but she’d only asked for him to talk to Mitch. Couldn’t he do that for her?
Nodding toward her and Shelly, Paige added, “In Anne’s writings, you might both find some illumination for the stages of life we women go through. She once said that every twenty years, our lives change. Anne wrote this book in her late forties; she’d taken a holiday by herself on Captiva Island, which is just off Florida’s Gulf Coast. She used shells she found on the beach to represent the stages of a woman’s life.”
“I’d like to read that, too,” Shelly
