ELARA'S POV
March arrived and with it the news that Marcus Webb had started a new company.
Damien read about it in the financial press on a Tuesday morning over coffee and mentioned it the way you mention something that has become genuinely irrelevant.
"Consulting firm," he said. "Focused on distressed assets."
"Appropriate."
"My thought exactly."
He put his phone down and finished his coffee and that was the entirety of the Marcus Webb conversation. Two years ago that name would have required management, strategy, contingency planning. Now it was two sentences over breakfast.
That was its own kind of progress.
I booked Croatia the same week. Thirteen days in May, starting on the fifteenth. The islands south of Split that we hadn't reached last time, smaller and less visited, the k
