Camile, who was so used to Cal being up in her business and Luc constantly calling, felt lonely. She still had her friends from the dance studio and had befriended a few of the mothers of the girls she taught, but at the end of the day, she came home alone to this tomblike place. She wasn’t unhappy, but she felt increasingly isolated. She didn’t have to worry about money or work or her apartment falling apart around her ears—which was a relief—but she had no one to talk to.
Blue called her regularly, but Camile tried to keep her sense of isolation from her friend because she didn’t want Blue to feel torn between her concern for Camile and her love for Luc.
Camile was spending most days at the studio now, and Susan had entrusted her with two back-to-back classes in the afternoons after sc
