NOTE:  I'm sorry I said that  there's only 2 chapters left.  There's 42 chapters. So, there are 3 more chapters left.

Present Day

“It’s going to be so weird,” SooYoung said as she watched Yuri carry another box down the stairs.

“Why weird?  I’ll still come in to work every day.”

“Yeah, but I’m used to you being here when I leave and being here when I get in.”

“Well now you’ll have that with Darrell.”

“I can’t  believe he wants to move into that tiny apartment.”  She laughed.  “Of course, you lived up there for six years.”

Yuri added the box to the others by the door.  The apartment was tiny, yes, but it had become home to her and she’d grown comfortable there above their office.  At the beginning, when they were getting started, she couldn’t afford anything else.  SooYoung had been telling her for the last several years that she needed to get a real home, but Yuri was content living there.  It was a bit of safety net for her.  If things didn’t work out with the business, she could pack up and leave.  Of course, things had worked out.  Their business was steady and SooYoung was always adding new clients.  She was relatively debt-free.  It was time.

Truth was, it was time to get on with her life.  It had been over a month since she’d sent the print of the sunrise to Jessica.  At the time, she told herself she’d give it a week.  But when that first week dragged by, she gave it another, thinking – hoping – Jessica would call.  But who did call was TaeYeon and Tiffany.  They were at the beach house and invited Yuri for dinner one evening.  Once again, TaeYeon broached the subject of selling.  They had been living at the ranch house on the refuge for years and seldom used the beach house.  TaeYeon had been trying to get Yuri to buy it for the last three years.  Yuri’s excuse was always that she wasn’t ready to settle, wasn’t ready to commit to that kind of investment.  But she was only kidding herself