The Maestro's Apprentice by Rhonda Leigh Jones

The Maestro's Apprentice by Rhonda Leigh Jones

Author:Rhonda Leigh Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub


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He laughed. “No-o-o. Longer than that, baby. Longer than that. Since about 1788,1789. Around then.”

Something about that date struck her as odd, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.

“Oh,” she said. “I thought you were younger, for some reason.”

He gave her another look. “You really know how to make a guy feel good about himself. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go cry in my room.”

Autumn laughed, genuinely this time.

“Now she’s laughing at me. You really are an evil woman, you know that?” he said.

“I don’t know if I’m safe around you. Hey, I have an idea. Why don’t we go down there and do something to them?”

“Do something to them? Like what?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know. Throw some water on them or something.”

“We can’t do that!”

“Why not? Ooh!” he said, hunching toward her excitedly, touching her arm with the backs of his fingers. “I’ll tell you what. I have a water pistol in my car. We can get that, and it may not make them quite as angry as some of the things we could do. What do you say? Do you want a little adventure?”

“Well,” Autumn said. Pranking the courtyard couple sounded like a great idea in theory, but she wasn’t sure how it would play out in practice. Besides, it was cold out there.

“Oh, come on, ” Francois said, turning to look out the window with a mischievous smile. “Live a little.”



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