After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 21

"Wow, Elizabeth, your skills have really gone rusty!" Emma teased, after listening to my mispronounced piano playing all over the place. "How on earth did you win first place back in college?"

let out a frustrated groan and buried my head in my hands, the weight of my own expectations crashing down on me.

I used to been the top student in our music department, but now, even the basics seemed

beyond my grasp.

Emma laughed, her eyes twinkling with mischief, as she shook her head at my misery,

be a force of nature, Elizabeth. But now... well, let's just say you've got

wrong, not one

me now take me a long time to stumble

playing.

and practice techniques

the challenge with

my limits in ways I hadn't dared to in years. The more I worked, the more I realized how much I had missed this creative side of myself-the side buried under years of

shadowed with dark circles and hair in disarray-and shook her head with

the Elizabeth I remember," she'd say, her tone