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I turn to him. “What in Hades is going on?”
“I’ve never heard a voice like yours, and I don’t think anyone else has either.”
The other band members crowd around me, talking over each other, all sounding excited. It sounds like they want me to join them permanently. Neva is going to hate me. Just what I need—another enemy.
I shake my head and back away. “Maybe I should sit the next one out. It’s you guys they want to hear.”
Bash pulls me close and spins me in a circle. “It’s your name they’re chanting, you goof.”
“What?” I turn toward the crowd that has again doubled in size.
Sure enough, they’re calling out, “Marra!”
Bash kisses my cheek. “Do you want to try a love song? I had you in mind when I wrote the lyrics.”
My mouth gapes. No words come. Everything is surreal.
“Come on. You’ll pick it up right away with your skill level.”
He and everyone else has me confused with somebody else. Seriously. I don’t know what’s going on.
Bash pulls out some papers and flips through them before handing them to me. “Here they are. Look these over for a moment and tell me what you think.”
I stare at the sheet but it takes my eyes a moment to make out the words. They nearly knock the air out of my lungs. He feels that way about me?
My heart was as dark as the ocean depths
But you’ve given me light
Shining in the darkest night
Pain is all I’ve known
You’ve shown me another way
Another way
Heartache isn’t the path I have to take
There’s more to this life now
You’ve shown me how
My eyes blur with tears, making it so that I can’t read any more.
“What do you think?” he asks.
I still can’t find my voice, so I wrap my arms around him and kiss him passionately.
He grins. “I take it you like it. What do you think about the melody?”
“I can’t read music.” I glance at the sheet.
“You’ve really had no training?”
“None.”
He shakes his head in obvious disbelief. “I don’t know how that’s possible. Must be a natural gift.”
