CHAPTER 16
Over the next couple of days Michael was conscious of teaching his classes to an extra student. Naïda couldn’t possibly understand his lessons about human psychology, but she might begin to get a sense of the phonology of the English language: the sounds, if not the meanings of the words. That would help.
Then he overheard a student muttering to another that the prof was “talking to them like they were morons.”
Not good. He’d have to try to forget Naïda was there, or somebody would soon be recommending him for a psych evaluation, and not the voluntary kind.
He and Nicole got together for a mid-morning coffee at a cafe near City Hall, and another day he brought her some of her favorite take-out Japanese food for dinner before her City Council meeting. But most of the week she
