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“And the rest of us benefitted”

She s her “I only wish I had a voice like Enya to add to my piano”

“Your piano doesn’t need it”

“You’d better watch yourself I’et addicted to compliments like those”

“That is a proble as I a could she reasonably expect that to be?

CHAPTER ELEVEN

AFTER dinner and another lavish co accorated to the inehe intended to cook, not having it catered

He ran his hand along the Fazioli’s glossy top “Play forthat he wasn’t afraid of invading her personal space like he had invited her into his

She slid onto the bench, letting her fingers play gently across the keys as she always did when she sat down at a piano “With pleasure”

He turned to face her, his expression as serious as she’d ever seen it “Is it?”

He couldn’t kno much that question meant to her “It is I want to play for you”

“Do I have to sit in that chair over there?”

“Not if you don’t want to,” she said uncertainly Did he want to stand?

Her unspoken question was answered when he joined her on the piano bench, filling her space in a way nothing had in her life except the ainst ,” she admitted with a smile

“Then we are even”

“I distract you?”

“Near, or far Yes, you do” He sounded bemused by that fact