The Rock Star Lost His Voice, and Now He Lip-Syncs to Mine novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Trap Door
Bev read the restraining order twice, with her glasses pushed up and her lips moving.
"It says stage," she said. "It says the stage of Madison Square Garden."
"The Well is under the stage," I said.
"Under it, not on it."
She folded the paper into a small, vicious square.
"Your Mr. Pellam hired a lawyer who has never been in a basement."
"Will it hold?"
"It'll hold until somebody with a badge disagrees."
At nine o'clock the house lights fell.
I sat on the stool in the Garden's Well with my headphones on and the little monitor glowing.
The band walked on to a roar that came down through the steel.
Fraser walked out last, in black, with the collar open over the red crescent and the film gone from his ribs.
He went to the mic and stood there.
Dougie hit the count-in for "Salt Road," and the band came in huge and bright.
Fraser did not sing.
He stood in the light with his hands at his sides while the first verse went by, empty.
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