She Didn't Fix Her Reputation. She Threw It Away novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: The Name on the Door
The keys lay across my palm, warm from Joel's hand.
One opened the front doors.
Another opened the skate shop, and the smallest opened the office above it.
"You're giving me a set?" I asked.
"I'm asking if you'll own half."
Toni stopped mid-sentence across the table.
"Do I need to leave?" she called.
"No," I said. "You might want to listen."
Joel pulled a chair beside mine.
"You know this place better than I do in some ways now," he said.
"I know which rental skates pinch."
"You brought nineteen women through the door in one day. You made me buy socks before I knew their names."
"You complained about the bill."
"I complained that the box blocked my sharpening bench."
He looked at the women eating pie on the track.
"I want you on the door and in the decisions. Half the rink, if you want it."
I turned the keys over.
"If I say yes, we build a fresh-meat scholarship," I said.
"For skates?"
"Skates, pads, bus fare. Whatever keeps someone from leaving after the first fall."
Toni held up her cast.
"Add medical tape. We use enough to wrap a truck."
"And the shirts pay for it," I said.
The Cracked Porcelain design had sold nine thousand in two weeks after the Cup.
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