31 Over the next four days, a new routine developed. Eric woke up early and left for practice. I got out of bed right after he was gone, whipped up a large mug of coffee and went to Argus. I stayed with him most of the day, just leaving to have lunch with my mother and my sister. Then, I went back to the ranch, helped Jimmy with chores—and he insisted something wasn’t right, which bothered me to no end—helped Paul with the setting up and cleaning up from each class, and when they were gone, went back to Argus until Eric came back. I cooked us dinner, we talked about things like his polo career and his plans of taking the first place in the world rank back, and I listened to him talk about our glorious future together—the one where I stayed home, primping his house and taking care of his

