It was only after two days that it finally dawned on him that she had left him for good.

Worse, she appeared to have vanished from the face of the earth. There was no trace of her.

Her friends appeared to be as baffled as he was.

In the ferocity of his anger, he had driven to the apartment that very night, the one she had shared with her old friends, although it had been close to 4 a.m. when he stood, banging on the door, unmindful of the commotion, ignoring the irate ...