Chapter 96

• ALEX
• I got back on with the renovation paperwork this morning in the kitchen, with steaming coffee in front of me. I only got another half hour done, though, before I looked up and stared out of the window for a while, focusing on my breathing as we did in mindset training. I loved the breathwork side of that and I tried to just slip in a few minutes of it whenever I could. I had felt completely in the right yesterday about Mary-Beth, and by the time I went to bed, I was glad we hadn’t run into one another in the communal spaces.
• But this morning, after a good night’s rest, it only took me two minutes of staring at the treetops and doing the breathing to realize that I had behaved like an absolute dick. My sudden horror at myself propelled me out of the kitchen. I wasn’t going to get anything done until I straightened things out between us.