Chapter 3Thus began a ritual of sorts for the next week. Nico would swing in, literally, to share a highly sanitized glass of wine or food delivered for a lunch or dinner. Their conversations ranged from whether Broadway shows were overrated (they weren’t) to their favorite Cuomo (Chris, though they both felt the need to say Andrew at first). They toasted to Arizona when it was rumored Nico could join a tour of the circus there, and cursed the entire state when the organizers insisted they didn’t want New Yorkers for fears of the virus. Once Nico shimmied down the rope with his guitar case slung on his back. He somehow talked Alec into singing drunken duets until the neighbors called foul on their third rendition of an Indigo Girls tune.
Alec never asked Nico beyond the physical barrier o
