Chapter 34

As each day passed, she wondered why Nico didn't at least give her a quick call to say everything was all right at his end of the world. She didn't want to appear too eager so Erica refused to follow up with her own calls and leave messages. Let him think and wonder why. After all, didn't absence make the heart grow fonder? Yet, for Erica, the absence of the artist, this man of her dreams and desires, only made her heart sag heavily with the pain of separation.

So, I'll dig deeper into work...