Nina finally raised her eyes. Cool. Gray. Unimpressed.
"Stealing your light." For two weeks, Ivy appeared. Not every day—that would have been predictable. She'd skip three days, then arrive with coffee. She'd compliment Nina's posture, then critique nothing. She never asked for anything. That was the seduction. Nina North And Ivy Jones Ivys Seduction Of Nina...
"Play something for me," Ivy whispered. "Not Bach. Something broken." Nina finally raised her eyes
Attached was a note: "You play like you're afraid of the silence between notes. But that's where I live." painting a mural of a storm.
Nina found Ivy on the roof of the south building, barefoot, painting a mural of a storm.