Then she set it on her nightstand, right next to the lamp. Forgetting about her notebook, she turned off the light.
The next morning, Alexa helped get the kids ready for school and out the door. Once the place was quiet, she sat at her makeshift desk. She took a few deep breaths and rolled her head from side to side. It was getting harder and harder to get herself going in the morning.
After a few more neck stretches, she reached in the milk crate to the side of the desk and took out a few files. She lifted her cell phone and switched it on. As she did so, it sprung to life in her hand, the screen lighting up pink then green then purple, the ringer chiming loudly through the apartment.
It was probably the second bank she’d applied to, telling her she’d been rejected for a loan. She sighed as she hit the answer button. She reminded herself of her internal promise to be professional, no matter what. “Alexa Villa,” she said. “Good morning.”
“Buenos dias. This is Carlos Ortega. I’d like to talk to you about your business proposal.”
Book Club Questions for The Night I Got Lucky
Would you want to get everything you wished for overnight? What are those things you would ask for?
If all your wishes were granted, do you see any problems that would arise? Are all your desires realistic? Do they fit your personality and your life?
Why do we so often think the grass is greener on the other side? Have you, or someone you know, gotten what they wished for and found the grass wasn’t so green? How did they handle the situation?
Do you know anyone who, like Billy, feels as if they’re trying to make things happen in their life but who is actually rather passive?
For Billy, the price of wish fulfillment was the feeling that no one in her life had free will. Would you want your wishes granted if the players in your life had no say in it?
What did you think about Billy’s unresolved feelings for her absentee father? Do you believe that abandonment like that in one’s childhood can affect the adult?
Laura Caldwell
Laura Caldwell, who lives in Chicago with her husband, left a successful career as a medical malpractice trial attorney and a partner at a successful firm to follow her dreams of becoming a novelist. In the span of 18 months, she sold four chick-lit novels to the Red Dress Ink imprint and three suspense novels to the MIRA Books imprint, the first of which is Look Closely.
But in addition to her now-successful writing career Laura does have two other jobs. She’s an adjunct professor of law at her alma mater, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she teaches Advanced Legal Writing. Laura is also a writer and contributing editor for Lake Magazine, a lifestyles publication based in the Indiana/Michigan area where Laura has a second home. Her freelance magazine work has been published in Woman’s Own, The Young Lawyer, Australia Woman’s Weekly and many other magazines.
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