Chapter 41 The Sound Between Us

• DANTE
• The soft, haunting melody drifted through the mansion, pulling me from my study like a moth to a flame. I followed the sound, and for once, the noise in my mind began to quiet. The calculations and contingencies faded.
• At the music room door, I stopped and leaned against the frame. Marisol sat at the grand piano. She didn't even seem to notice me. Her entire world was in those keys, like nothing outside of them mattered. Her fingers moved across the keys with a kind of fluid grace.