Harrison sold his interest in the logistics firm and does something now that involves considerably less flying.

And Maya went back to work.

That was the part people found hardest to understand, and it was the part she was most certain about.

She had come out of the settlements and the sale with enough money to never work again, and she had had one afternoon of imagining that life and had found it unbearable, because she had spent six years in a marriage in which somebody else’s plans quietly determined the shape of her days.

She used the money from 2B to buy a failing neighborhood pharmacy on the west side, from a man who had run it for thirty-four years and could not find a buyer.