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It wasn’t that she couldn’t afford it. She had plenty of money from trust funds and from her work. She just couldn’t understand the need to throw it around on something like this. Izzy wanted it, or at least she wanted her mom to be happy, and Valeria wasn’t going to try to object to it or anything like that. She just couldn’t understand it.

By the time she turned around, Josiane was back in her clothes and Izzy was ready to struggle out of her dress. “Thanks so much for all of your help,” Valeria said to the consultant, and then she addressed the others. “Hey, do you think we could all grab lunch together? It would be good to spend a little timetogether, you know?”

“Oh yes, we’ve already scheduled a lunch meet up with Nathalie.” Sarah beamed. “Great minds think alike. We’re meeting her at Siwanoy at noon.” She turned her nose up at Josiane. “Only four to play golf. You understand, of course.”