Absence

Then that's love. The love of a lifetime, she said to herself over and over again, even though she knew it from the beginning, and as she spent the time that separated her from Grevius. Her wonderful, cruel and distant Grevius, who could only call her three times a week and could not yet say when he would return.

She went to the office as usual, but saw more of her friends and even invited them to the villa a few times as Grevius had suggested. She also helped a happy and excited Mellira, whom for the first time in her life, she envied infinitely, in her various preparations for her marriage with this extremely rich banker whose name the young woman finally learned, Boldorus Scott.