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She continued, "You’re being given a chance, Balthazar Redgrave doesn’t giveand hard before you waste it" Constantia began strolling away, her feet crunching in the snow, ly confident As she went, she called back over her shoulder, "By the way, ‘ever’ is a very long time"

Chapter Ten

ON GOOD DAYS AT CAFÉ KEATS, LOCAL BANDS would get up and jaht they were talented got up and proved theree on which kind of day this was

"How old is she? Like, eighty?" Madison rolled her eyes as she licked a bit of the whipped cream from the top of her drink

"Probably What does it lance at the white-haired wo out a slow, melancholy version of "You Really Got a Hold on Me" It was an old song, but one she liked "I e And she can really play So why not?"

"I prefer music from this century," Madison insisted After another sip of whipped creaame--I only realized at the end of the day how that’s kind of aard for you What with Craig and everything"

"I’ll be okay" She kind of had to be, now that Balthazar was going there to guard her Skye sensed it would be easier to sit through one of Craig’s games with Balthazar as a distraction

"We’ll sit far away froirlfriend of his I can’t stand her She’s just--vacant, you know? Like, the lights are on but nobody’s home"

That was clearly an invitation to bitch about Britnee, but Skye didn’t feel like it Shrugging, she said, "I didn’t really think about the over hihtened withabout our sexy new sub" Skye felt her face going warm, and she hter "You were! Somebody’s hot for teacher"

"I’ the truth was out of the question "Okay, he’s good-looking I noticed And so did you"

"True, true" Madison draped her legs over the side of the chintz arood table with the cozy chairs in the far corner by the poetry board "Mr More see I bet he hasn’t been out of college for long"

A few centuries or so, actually "Looks that way"