“That’s the hope. Might depend on when I decide what I want to do with my life when I grow up.”
His grandmother laughed. “You grew up a long time ago. You had a path and you achieved it. Many never get to lay claim to that.”
He laughed. “Yeah, I did. Thanks to you.”
“You did it on your own.”
But not without her help.
Money she’d set aside in an investment. He gambled it with no one’s knowledge.
It paid off.
He did it a second time.
He scored again.
Risking a third time would be reckless when he had more money than he’d need in a lifetime.
Now he needed to find a purpose.
And if he couldn’t, he’d move on and try something else.
He’d been doing it for years. It wasn’tnotworking for him.
But he wanted something to stick, something to anchor him. Something that would make him plant his feet and finally say,this is it.
“We can argue that all we want,” he said. “But for now, I’m going to say I’ll win because I’m too tired from traveling and you’ll feel sorry for me if I whine.”
“Or tell you to cut the crap,” his grandmother said. “Because you’re a lot younger than me and I can out-whine you on just about everything.”
“You never complain.”
“Only about my son.”
If it weren’t for his grandmother, he wasn’t sure he’d be as sane as he was. Many would say he wasn’t even that.
“He’s not going to change,” he said.
“Nor will your mother.”
He hadn’t talked to either of his parents in a few months. Nothing new there.
They each had their own lives and partners. Most likely different from who they were with the last time he talked to them.
“Nope. And talking about them will put me in a worse mood when I’m so happy to be here.”
“How did you find out about that place?”
He wasn’t going to confess that now. No one needed to know, least of all the woman who’d been trying to get him to plant his itchy feet for years.
“I find lots of places in my free time. But in this case, I was watching a rerun of a reality cooking show one night.”
“You’re not trying to be a chef now, are you?”
He laughed over the exasperation in her voice. “No.” He was done with the cooking phase. Nothing he wanted as a career, but he’d spent a lot of time trying things for fun. “It was aboutwedding retreats and I looked into the places and discovered this island.”
He wasn’t lying.
