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JULIANI had known Ava was going to be a problem from the moment I saw her face in the park.Not because of what we had been to each other, which was finished long ago and had ended without particular drama on either side, or at least that was what I had told myself for years. But because of the way she had looked at Eli. The slight pause before she smiled. The tilt of her head as she processed what she was seeing, when she ran into me again, on the same streets of t
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Chapter 33ARIAThe next morning's rehearsal ran long.I pushed the program harder than I had planned to, pushing my musicians who were beginning to notice the tension that was building up but said nothing and did as they were told, repeating the music peieve over and over.We ran the final movement four times.After the third, Adaeze caught my eye across the room with an expression that was not concern exactly but was paying close attention.After the fourth, when I called the break, she appeared at my shoulder with two cups of tea from the side table, holding one out to me in the quiet way she did things."Good morning," she said."Was it not good yesterday," I said."Yesterday was excellent," she said. "This morning is different." She sipped her tea and looked out at the rehearsal space where the other musicians were moving around, stretching, talking in small groups. "What's in you this morning is good. I just want to make sure everything is alright, you kind of went hard on every
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Chapter 32ARIAI could see Ava's.She was looking at him with something that was not professional one bit, she was looking at him like she was right where she wanted to be, and stood by it.The bell rang for the second half.Julian came back to his seat leaving Ava behind. Ava drifted back into the crowd. Having no other reason to stay. And I stepped away from the wings and went to find my violin.Julian did not mention the conversation afterward.Not in the car on the way back to the hotel. Not when we checked on Eli together. He talked about everything else.He talked about the performance. He talked about the hall, the way the acoustics had carried during the solo set. He was warm and present and said all the right things and I sat beside him and listened and kept my mouth shut about what I had seen,Because what was I going to say. I saw you talking to your investor representative at a professional event. I saw you introduce her to another investor. I saw her expression when sh
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Chapter 31ARIAThe charity opera was at the Meridian Hall, the oldest and most beautiful venue in the city. The ceiling was painted, the acoustics were the sort that made every note feel considered, and the audience was exactly the kind that filled seats like that, old money and new influence, people who attended cultural events because they genuinely loved them.We had been preparing the program for two weeks. It was not our usual tour repertoire. The charity committee had requested something specific and I had built the program carefully.I was in the wings twenty minutes before curtain, running a scale quietly in the dark, when Julian appeared.He had flowers. A full arrangement, the kind that took deliberate choosing and not the kind you picked up from a shop near the door on the way in. Deep red, structured, the stems wrapped in dark paper. He held them out with the particular expression he wore when he was doing something that mattered to him and was trying to make it look casu
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Chapter 30JULIAN"No," I said.She looked at me with the particular expression of a person who had expected that answer."You were hers," I said. The words came out before I had fully decided to say them, but they were true and I did not take them back. "That's the honest answer, Ava. I'm sorry for it. But you asked me directly and that's the truth. I couldn't have her. She was with Adrian. She was married and unreachable and I had known her since university and I had spent years watching her be somewhere I couldn't get to."She was quiet. Something moved across her face that I recognized as genuine pain and I felt something for it, some old regret, but not enough to change anything."And now you have her," she said."Now I have her," I said. "We're getting married. Whatever this is, whatever you think you're going to accomplish with those photographs, I am asking you to stop. Not as a threat. As someone who knows you well enough to know you are better than this."Something flickered
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Chapter 29JULIANI had known Ava was going to be a problem from the moment I saw her face in the park.Not because of what we had been to each other, which was finished long ago and had ended without particular drama on either side, or at least that was what I had told myself for years. But because of the way she had looked at Eli. The slight pause before she smiled. The tilt of her head as she processed what she was seeing, when she ran into me again, on the same streets of the city where I had dumped her, after finding out that Aria had lost her memories and I saw an opportunity.What Ava saw now was a woman who looked like her, a child who did not know who she was and a man she had history with standing in between.Ava was not a stupid woman. That had always been both her best quality and her most inconvenient one because it was harder to move things past her.I had spent the days after the park telling myself I could manage it all on my own a
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Chapter 28ARIAJulian sat back down, his elbows on his knees, his voice careful. "It would look like insecurity. It would look like the lead musician of the orchestra had a problem with a company representative over something personal, and in the industry, that kind of story travels fast and it does not travel kindly." A pause. "It would be framed as you feeling small compared to her."The specific cruelty of it settled over me like weather.She had positioned herself perfectly. She had professional standing I could not challenge, family protection I could not go around, and a narrative ready to deploy the moment I tried to remove her. If I pushed, I looked threatened. If I stayed quiet, she stayed close."So she stays," I said."For the duration of the investor agreement," he said. "Yes."I nodded once and said nothing further.Julian reached for my hand. I let him take it."Aria. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I thou
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