A month went by before I saw Nicholas again.
He came through the Formont branch right before New Year's on company business and asked me to dinner.
I told him I'd called off the divorce. That I was going to stay in it for my son. Something went out of his face when I said it. He didn't push.
He looked at me, dead serious, and said, "Joanna, if it ever gets to be too much, just know I'm here. I'm not going anywhere."
I wasn't sure what his game was saying something like that. I figured he was just trying to comfort me, so I brushed it off.
Come to think of it, Nicholas wasn't getting any younger, but he was still single.
I knew his family had to be riding his back about it, but he acted like his love life was the last thing on his radar.
"Nicholas," I teased, "you're not secretly wai
