Chapter 52

The art history class dragged on longer than usual, the professor lost in a passionate rant about 16th-century frescoes and forgotten techniques of layered pigments. I tried to focus—really, I did—but my mind kept drifting to the group project we’d been assigned earlier that week. To my misfortune—or perhaps fate’s cruel joke—I had been grouped with Jovan and Marcello.

“Fresco mural project due ne