HE GAVE MY PLACE TO HIS MISTRESS. OUR SON GAVE ME THE COMPANY

the table.

Graham’s smile vanished.

The instrument had been created by his father, Theodore Sterling, seven months before his death.

Theodore had been a hard, difficult man. He distrusted sentiment, admired engineering, and understood his son with the clarity of someone who had helped create him.

He also knew I had written Asterion.

Near the end of his continue reading …