Chapter Four Dana dashed about the house, picking up clothes that she'd strewn about the place during the week. The landscape of her home had taken on a decidedly shabbier look since Nick left. Out from under his watchful gaze, there was a certain liberation in being less than perfect all the time. And yet, with Nick coming over to "talk" about the divorce she was determined to make her living space look neat-as-a-pin. Maybe she was crazy for deferring to him, but it seemed important that he see their separation as a good thing for her. She could get along efficient and sane without him. It had been two days since Dana's last visit to Lucien's, but the memory of his art-strewn house, his wife, and his soulful eyes had not faded from her mind. Feeling as if the aura of Lucien and Ariel B