Brian had made good on his promise and had enlisted both Nancy and Phumsile's aid in ensuring that she took her vitamins and rested enough... but that was the only promise he kept. A month passed with barely any word from him, his phone calls, the few that came, were rushed and impersonal and barely lasted three minutes each time. When Bella tried to contact him, he was never available, or so the cold female voices on the other end of the line told her. She had no choice but to take them at their word.She kept track of Brian's movements through the news; online, televised and printed, his father's death and Brian's subsequent taking over of an empire were pretty hot news items and barely a day went by that it wasn't mentioned in some form of news. There had been paparazzi coverage of the f
