Opposites Attract
Chapter One
Kelly Berman was used to lugging her cello through the streets of the city.
She'd carried it to classes from the time she was ten-the lessons were her
mother's one extravagance on Kelly's behalf. She'd carried it to Junior Symphony
when she was a teenager. She'd carried it back and forth from her dorm to one of
the practice rooms in Gherke Hall when she was in college. And for the past five
years she'd transported it to rehearsals and performances with the city
orchestra where she was third chair. She'd even carried it to her mother's
funeral and played the Cadman Requiem dry-eyed and note perfect during the
service.
Sometimes it felt like the bulky instrument was her best friend.
Tonight she struggled up from the subway and along the two blocks to her
apartment building through crowds of holiday shoppers. She stepped carefully on
the icy sidewalk and entered her building cold, exhausted and relieved to be
home. All she wanted was to collapse on her couch in comfy sweats with a cup of
hot cocoa. She would read an inane romance novel and live vicariously through
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