“Blast you.” Violet clenched both hands now. I’m right that you handle all the appointments, aren’t I? She’d welcome the rest, I’d wager.” “Make all the consultations for later in the week. The machine is handy then.”ĭaniel shrugged, walking close enough to her that she felt the movement. “My mother needs me for her private consultations. “I signed a contract with the concert hall. She tried to set a swift pace so he’d grow bored and go away, but Daniel walked along beside her without even breathing hard. “I can’t,” Violet said flatly as she strode along. And he was right that she didn’t want to let it out of her sight, because it had been expensive to build, and she’d tinkered with it until it did exactly what she wanted. That he was interested in her wind machine was plain. When Daniel spoke of machinery, his eyes lost their predatory look, and his focus changed. Not being able to read him was a terrible disadvantage. Did he know that the workings of engines and devices fascinated her? How exactly to entice her? Violet was curious now as to what he was building, and how he just happened to have a friend with a workshop twenty miles down the coast from where Violet was staying. Have a friend who will let me use his workshop. “Little town about twenty miles from here, down the coast.
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