He hadn’t been able to shake the unsettling mood he’d been in ever since Erica’s ex-fiancé had called her at the crack of dawn. It seemed that every time he and Erica stepped back on a good footing, something would crop up and put them at odds with each other again. For a relationship that he felt was meant to be, it seemed the universe was leaving him small clues that he should take a second look, and despite what he’d told his parents just yesterday, he was beginning to doubt his own instincts for the first time. He thought about the events of the past few days. Claude had sent Erica flowers, then had shown up at her brother’s event, and now he was giving her early morning phone calls. Jerome knew the intention behind those moves, because he’d done a few of them himself, and he also knew that if a man was putting in the kind of time and effort that Claude was demonstrating, he had to be after something. Jerome wanted to believe what Erica had told him—that she’d cut all ties with the man—but the evidence of Claude’s presence in her life made that claim a bit questionable.
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