#CHAPTERS 167: Shared Paths

Sarah POV At Ms. Glim’s urging, Zane had hired a voice coach for Grace who came three times a week after she got back from school. Grace had wanted to have her every day, but Miss Carmen, as she insisted on being called, worried about burnout and possible overuse of her voice. “There will be plenty of time for that level of training later,” she said in a rather thick Italian accent Sarah suspected was, while genuine, quite purposeful. But she came from a line of sopranos, hence her name, and there was no question of her excellence. They practiced in the conservatory, as Ms. Glim said the acoustics there were excellent, and so for about an hour three times a week the villa was filled with music. It was becoming one of my favorite things in life, listening to that young but clear and powerful voice singing opera, which I had no idea I even liked. Often, Chloe would sit with me in my study during Grace’s lessons while I oversaw funding for the school at the mine or worked on a scr