Eric was right to not appreciate Nicole wanting to use his plight to further her career ambitions. Nicole is not a total angel in Eric's memory file. She lied to him about having cancer so he would dump her sister, then she betrayed/parlayed his love for her into a five million dollar payoff from Kate. History is often written over or ignored in soap writing, many times for good reasons, but in this case, you have to think it is in the back of his mind. Nicole dumped Eric for money once, now she wants to use him once again to her advantage. He has just come out of a traumatic experience, is living with his own guilt over accusing her wrongly as well, so I have to give him the point in this encounter. I still want to see a story with these two, and know it is going to have bumps and bruises like this one.