Four Alpha Brothers Hunted the Ghostwriter, Now He Sleeps in Their Bed novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Marais
The album took nine days.
Emile hated every one of the first six.
"It's flat," he said, taking off the headphones. "The second verse. I sound like I'm reading a bill."
"You sound like a man," Fabien said. "Singing his own song."
"I sound terrified," Emile said.
"That is the sound of a person who means it."
"I'm not a singer, Fabien. I write the words and you sing them. That's how it works."
"That is how it worked," Fabien said gently. "Now try again."
Emile stood in the glass booth in the barn with a mic in front of him.
Four men watched him through the window.
Gaston sat at the board and Sylvain had his feet on the desk.
Fabien sat in a chair with his arms folded.
Thibault sprawled across the sofa with a drumstick behind his ear.
He took a long breath.
He sang the second verse of the tin roof song the way it sounded in his head, in his own voice, scratchy and low.
It cracked on the last line.
Nobody said anything.
Gaston pressed the button.
"Perfect," he said. "That one."
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