Chapter 1124:

Elyse approached him, her voice gentle. “What’s got you so wound up?”

He whirled to face her, pinching the bridge of his nose. “You made it. One minute my dad agrees to see you, the next he’s shutting everyone out. He won’t even listen now.”

Frustration simmered beneath Anthony’s words, his father’s mercurial moods clearly taking their toll.

Elyse placed a reassuring hand on his arm. “Deep breaths. I might still be able to reach him.”

She paused, an idea forming. “Any chance I could borrow a violin?”

Anthony nodded, disappearing into the house. He returned moments later, cradling a pristine instrument. “It’s new, though. You’ll need to tune it yourself.”

accepting the

fingers dancing across the strings as she

entrusting her with that

positioned herself in the yard’s center. With a deep breath, she lifted the violin and began to play. The haunting strains of “Valse Sentimentale” filled the

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him, Anthony’s expression went blank. A nagging sense of familiarity tugged at his mind, as if

as Anthony grasped at the elusive recollection, a creak cut through the melody. The warehouse door

to see

her eyes closed. As the

them before George’s gruff voice broke it. “What’s

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