“As you can see, the view is lovely. Though you can’t see the ocean from here, it is a spectacular sight when you wake up in the morning to see the swaying palm trees and a wide expanse of blue sky.”
Veronica, the manager of the apartment complex where Rome lived, was a woman in her mid-forties who spoke like someone who’d been showing real estate properties for at least a few decades.
“It’s a lovely space,” Ella agreed, checking out the size of the master bedroom again. It came furnished, and the bed in the room was king sized--plenty of room for her, and maybe one more…. “And you say it’s a six month lease?”
“Yes, and you get two parking spots.”
Ella smiled politely, even though she hadn’t even arranged to get her car from Teresa yet. She hadn’t wanted to bother Tim with the car and the apartment all at once, not when he was a bundle of nerves waiting to hear about the movie he’d auditioned for a few days earlier.
