Ruin Me, Daddy novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: The Microphone

The mic was warm from his hand.

Brady laughed, too loud, without it. "Go on, then."

I turned around and faced the room.

Four hundred people. String lights. Breath steaming in the cold. A camera light in my eyes from the side wall.

I'd spent three years in a closet so nobody would ever look at me while I talked.

"Hi," I said.

My voice went out of eight speakers and filled the rickhouse to the rafters.

Somebody in the back said, "That's her," the way they had at the diner.

"Yes," I said. "That's my voice. The one on the tour, and the one he just played. Same voice. I'm good at it."

"I've recorded an adult audio show for three years. People listen in their cars and their kitchens and their bathtubs."

In the aisle, the diner woman nodded firmly.

"I'm not ashamed of that. I'm not going to stand up here and say sorry for it."

The room was very quiet now. The barrels ticked.

"Here's what he didn't tell you," I said. "He made a bet in his father's house. He won, and he took the money."

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