38Over the next few days, Loreley threw himself headlong into her job so as not to think about the moment she would see Sonny again. From Jeffrey she had learned that he had isolated himself in the villa at the beach. She could have gone to see him, but she still felt shaken by the meeting with her former partner and feared that his reaction would not be much different. The children were fine with Mira and when Loreley came home from work they were there waiting for her, ready to be pampered. Daisy was jealous and did not miss any opportunity to protest if she was ignored. During the week Loreley had gone with her father to see a couple of apartments near the law firm, so she would be closer to home, and had chosen the one near a park. When she had looked down at it from one of the windo

