Page 54 of Last Song for the Soprano

‘Mrs Crofts.Would you like to join us?’Odette said, gesturing at the table.‘We have hot chocolate and pastries, if that is not too decadent for you.We were just about to read the reviews.’

‘What do they say about him?’Mrs Crofts’s eyes flicked towards the paper as she found a place beside Freya and lowered herself into the seat.

‘And me?’asked Freya.

‘And us?’asked Odette.‘What do they make of your playing, Cassius?’

Cassius opened the paper, his arms stretching to the full width of the broadsheet.He scanned the headlines for reports of the show, then burst into laughter the moment he found one.He folded the paper to display the article and dropped it to the table.

‘It’s about all of us.And none of us.I am sorry, ladies, but someone else has stolen the headlines.’

He motioned to the paper, which proudly declared:

Von Miller has done it again!