The landlord is selling the building before my bookstore has even had a chance

Dear Delyara, I opened a small secondhand bookstore seven months ago after saving for nearly a decade. It is not profitable yet, but it is getting there. We have regular customers now. Children sit on the floor in the back. One retired man comes every Tuesday and buys almost nothing but talks for an hour. Yesterday, my landlord told me the building is being sold and the buyer may not renew commercial leases. I smiled through the conversation because apparently adults discuss the possible death of a dream using words like notice period and market value. I cannot afford another premises nearby. Moving the stock alone would cost money I do not have. My wife says nothing is final. True. I have spent today behaving as though the shop is open normally while secretly looking at every wall as something I may soon have to leave. A little girl brought me fifty pence from her pocket and asked me to keep a book until Saturday because she needs another pound. I put her name inside it. I did not tell her I do not know whether I will still have this counter when she returns in six months, never mind six years.