The Rock Star Lost His Voice, and Now He Lip-Syncs to Mine novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Cost
He walked up Bev's driveway at dusk through forty fans, with no hat and no hood and nobody beside him.
The lawn saw him coming and went quiet in a ripple, sign by sign.
I watched from the porch with my arms folded and my mother's rice cooker warm against my hip.
Fraser stopped at the bottom step in the drizzle.
He had a manila folder in one hand, and the red crescent still showed above the neck of his shirt.
"I'll no' say I'm sorry again," he said, loud enough for the lawn. "I've said it to a mirror all week, and it's cheap."
"Then why are you here?"
"To pay." He climbed one step and held out the folder. "It's my half of the Salt Road publishing."
"Every song on the album, signed over to you. The lawyer's put your name where mine was."
Behind me Dougie made a noise like a kettle.
"That's your pension," I said.
"It's my share of what I took."
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