Total pages in book: 159
Estimated words: 157450 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 787(@200wpm)___ 630(@250wpm)___ 525(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 157450 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 787(@200wpm)___ 630(@250wpm)___ 525(@300wpm)
She stirs, and her eyes open. She beams up at me, her smile illuminating the room.
“I love you,” I whisper.
“I love you,” she responds, reaching up to caress my cheek, her fingers tickling my stubble. “Thank you for not giving up on me.” Her voice is as soft as a summer breeze.
“Never. I’ve got you. Always.”
“And I’ve got you.”
“I think your dad will shoot me if he finds you here.”
“No, he’ll shoot me. I think he likes you.”
“He likes my title.”
“Maybe.”
“Are you okay?” I’m serious now, my voice dropping as I search her face for clues of what she’s endured for the past couple of days.
“Now that I’m with you, I am.”
“I’ll kill him if he ever comes near you again.”
She puts her finger on my lips. “Let’s not speak of him.”
“Okay.”
“I am sorry. For the lie.”
“Lie? About the pregnancy?”
She nods.
“Alessia, it was genius. Besides, I wouldn’t mind some kids.”
An heir and a spare.
She smiles and, leaning up, kisses me, tempting and teasing my lips with her tongue, and I’m hungry for more.
I ease her onto her back to make love to her once again.
Mindful. Beautiful. Fulfilling. Love.
As it should be.
Later this week we’ll be married.
I can’t wait.
I just have to tell my mother….
Alessia’s Music
Chapter Two
“Le Coucou” by Louis-Claude Daquin (Alessia’s warm-up piece)
Prelude no. 2 in C Minor, BWV847, by J. S. Bach (Alessia’s angry Bach prelude)
Chapter Four
Prelude no. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV848, by J. S. Bach
Chapter Six
Prelude and Fugue no. 15 in G Major, BWV884, by J. S. Bach
Prelude no. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV872, by J. S. Bach
Chapter Seven
Années de Pèlerinage, 3ème année, S. 163 IV, “Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este,” by Franz Liszt
Chapter Twelve
Prelude no. 2 in C Minor, BWV847, by J. S. Bach
Chapter Thirteen
Prelude no. 8 in E-flat Minor, BWV853, by J. S. Bach
Chapter Eighteen
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C Minor, op. 18-1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Chapter Twenty-Three
Prelude no. 15 in D-flat (“Raindrop”) by Frédéric Chopin
“Le Coucou” by Louis-Claude Daquin
Piano Sonata no. 17 in D Minor, op. 31, no. 2 (“Tempest” III) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Chapter Twenty-Six
Prelude no. 23 in B Major, BWV868, by J. S. Bach
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Prelude no. 6 in D Minor, BWV851, by J. S. Bach