Eternal Melody by Anisa Claire West

Author:Anisa Claire West [West, Anisa Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Amazon: B00989SEIY
Published: 2012-09-07T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The ensuing weeks were a hurricane for Rebecca, who was constantly engaged with rigorous rehearsals at the hall. She devoted all of her spare time to Gloria and Annabelle, having daily tea with her grandmother and playing joyously with the ever changing tot. As she and Ryan had agreed before he left for Munich, Rebecca gave Gloria a portion of her wages for the old lady to divvy up fairly. Rebecca estimated that by the time Ryan and Luke’s train rolled back into Austria-Hungary, Gregory and Ethel’s ship could be sailing out.

The steady flurry of activity in Rebecca’s life was not sufficient, though, to keep her daydreams from wandering to Luke. He had not written her once since leaving, but neither had her own brother, so she tried not to read too much into it. Still, speculation about what Luke was doing with Greta gnawed at her mercilessly. She tried to cling to those final moments and that explosive, devastating kiss, but with each new sunrise the memory faded a little farther into the distance.

As the calendar inched closer to September, rehearsals were becoming lengthier and more physically demanding. Seamstresses had been commissioned to design costumes, and Rebecca assigned her grandmother to help complete the laborious task of clothing an entire chorus. Sewing helped Gloria to be content and feel useful rather than a burden on her granddaughter. In addition to the costumes, the set needed to be decorated lavishly, and stage hands from around the city came in every day to contribute to the project. It was a complex set to design, as the opera took place in Egypt. Every detail was crucial, from the paper cutouts of palm groves to the desert backdrop against the Pyramids.

Tickets were currently in production at the printing press, as The Magic Flute was scheduled to début on the eighth of September and run through the first week of October. If it opened to good reviews, then it was feasible that the orchestra would be taking the show on the road. Rebecca held fast to that aspiration, determined to give a memorable performance and begin a career across Europe.

When the calendar page finally flipped to September, the entire ensemble was in a panic about their looming opening night. Each day, Rebecca waited for a knock at her door, hoping that Luke would come for her immediately from the train station. But every day, her fifth floor chamber was silent except for the sound of her own voice. Even Mr. Graysen was becoming nervous, as he was counting on Luke and Ryan to perform, even though they had missed the majority of rehearsals. The two young men were so adept at handling their instruments and knew the opera so intimately that they would be able to slip seamlessly back into the orchestra.

By the time the fifth of September dawned, and they were a nail-biting three days from débuting, Rebecca’s stomach stirred with butterflies, not only from stage jitters, but out of fear that something had happened to Luke and Ryan.

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