The Business Claire Never Planned
Chapter 16 - The Business Claire Never Planned
The lake house needed repairs.
Rather than sell it, Claire transformed it.
Her mother had once dreamed of opening the property to women rebuilding their lives after divorce, financial abuse, or family crisis.
Claire created a small nonprofit retreat.
She called it Harbor House.
Vanessa volunteered to help with fundraising.
Their relationship remained complicated, but something unexpected grew between them: not friendship exactly, but mutual respect.
Two women who had once stood on opposite sides of a betrayal now worked in the same kitchen painting old cabinets.
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One afternoon Vanessa said, “I still hate who I was in your living room that day.”
Claire replied, “Then don’t be her anymore.”
