Well, sure enough there was a client who needed help. She finally got the information from Connor, who was almost too charming and good-looking (not that she was complaining), but finally had to ask point-blank how Nico fit into the equation.
Connor told her to go get the answers from Nico himself, so she headed down to the crowded atrium to find him. By the time she had pushed her way through to reach him, he was gone, but instead, he had just decided to startle her the way he enjoyed doing so much. But that was about all that remained of the man she knew from before. He really did not seem to care at all that she had been worried about him. He certainly seemed to be completely indifferent about seeing her again. When she found out that he had been in New York the whole time, she was angry, and by the time he seemed to almost taunt her with what happened with the Hawks, she was livid and hurt. She'd never known him to be remotely cruel before.
After she had some time to think about it, she decided she wasn't being fair to judge him by the way he had behaved that morning. After all, as a therapist she knew that people put up all sorts of walls for many reasons. Maybe Jeannette was right - maybe he had been more hurt by her rejection than she had thought (she wouldn't go so far as to say she had broken his heart, of course - after all he was still getting over Gabrielle Pittman when they had kissed, and besides, Jeannette loved to exaggerate). Maybe he was embarrassed. In any case, she had seen his true character so many times while they worked for the Hawks, and she owed that person a lot of benefit of the doubt.
She was surprised to see him on the plane when she did the test flight with Hutch, but she imagined it was part of his job description, which was probably as vague as it was with the Hawks. She tried to get some information out of him, but he dodged her as easily as he always had in the past. What was missing was the playfulness such discussions used to have. Still, she wasn't going to give up this easily.