Chapter 122. It Can Only Be You, Will Only Ever Be You (3)

He took the violin out for her and put it into her hand, then took his place next to her.

“This is what I do if I’m not working and I’m away from you, when I let you have dinner all on your own, when I stop myself from enjoying your company, like the fool I am,” he said, showing her the new pieces he’d written for her.

She took them into her other hand, touched them like they were precious jewels.

“Play with me?”

Troy hadn’t touched a piano since the proposal. He sat here almost every night, writing for her, about her, but he couldn’t make himself touch the thing. It felt wrong to him too. But hearing the sound of her violin alongside his keys opened his heart the way it did that night on the rooftop. What she didn’t know was he had given up. Didn’t want to be in love with her anymore, not when it was so easy for her to turn away from him and seek out other men. Troy wasn’t looking for love on that rooftop, he was there to make a business deal. Aria Maine’s p