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“Zephyr and I believe in hiring the best people for the job You are a master pianist”

“So I have been told” Many, y at the age of three

“It is your turn to answer a question for me”

“If you like” And if she could She braced herself for the question most people asked, and the one for which she did not have an answer anyone had found satisfying thus far

“Why do you give lessons to the charity auction every year when you are a career composer and pianist, not actually a teacher?”

For a moment, she was so stunned he had not asked what everyone else did—why she had stopped perfor publicly—that she was stuht up with his curiosity and she said, “Many up-and-co pianists want to study with me This is the one chance they have to do so”

“Why present the opportunity at all?”

“Because as much as I prefer a quiet life, one without any new people in it at all can get lonely And I don’t want to be that person The woh in many ways that was exactly what she did

“Were you disappointed to discover your lessons had been bought by a novice?”

“No, ave hied et me out of it”

“He did not approach Zephyr, or myself to cancel the lessons”

“No”

Neo’s eyes narrowed, but she wasn’t sure as htened? Even with your condition, you had done this before”

“Not for a successful billionaire”

“I am just like any other man”