By morning, the old stage in the bar had been ripped out and a hole dug deep into the ground beneath. Perdue went into the hole, along with some dirt and rocks and concrete. Then we got to work on the new stage. I made this one a little wider, something I’d been meaning to do anyway.
The girls loved it.
“Thanks, Papa,” Ellie said after Knowles had left.
“Nothing to thank me for. How about a dance?”
“Not today,” she said. But this time, unlike all the previous times I’d asked her to try out the new stage, she actually smiled.
I was breaking her down. One day, she’d get up there and she’d dance again.
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The Logan Harper Novels
LITTLE GIRL GONE
The Jonathan Quinn Thrillers
THE CLEANER
SHADOW OF BETRAYAL in the U.S./THE UNWANTED in the U.K.
THE SILENCED
Short Stories
JUST ANOTHER JOB — A JONATHAN QUINN STORY
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