Outlaw Country

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Author: Davida Lynn
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recording. Kathleen would watch the boy like a hawk, and everything should be just fine. She had lived the last twenty years trying to provide a better life for Gracie, and she wasn’t about to let someone as greasy as Colton destroy her little girl’s career.
    What’s the phrase? Young, dumb, and full of cum.
    Kathleen reminded herself to keep a close eye on every one of the band members at the recording session as well. Any one of them could be too much of a temptation for Gracie to handle.  
    “I’m just looking out for my little girl, that’s all.”
    Gracie nodded. “Or your biggest client?”
    Her mother couldn't help but smile. Gracie was always too smart for her own good, “You’re my only client, girl.” She may have been smart when it came to the stage and the song, but Kathleen had kept Gracie far too sheltered to let the girl develop street smarts.
    Gracie gave a face that reminded Kathleen of when her daughter had actually been a little girl. “Mhm. I’m gonna get my yoga in before Alice comes over. She says I’ll be ready to show that unskilled redneck a thing or two about vocal performance in the studio tomorrow.”
    “Good girl. There’s a reason you’re on the cover of Rolling Stone next month and he’s on the cover of America’s Most Wanted.” Kathleen watched her sweet girl head back upstairs to get her exercise in for the day. Every day that Gracie grew older, Kathleen became more worried about the Colton Wades and Shepard Greens of the world. Shepard had taught her a valuable lesson. They may look wholesome on the outside, but they are all rotten on the inside. With Colton’s messy hair and myriad of tattoos, she wondered just how rotten Colton was on the inside.

“He’ll be there, I promise.” Roger hated making promises, especially when it came to Colton. In Roger’s two years managing Colton, the kid had never missed a show, but he’d been damn close too many times to count. He had missed more than one date at a recording studio, however.
    Roger was going to make sure that Colton didn’t miss this date, though. Despite Colton’s hangover, wild horses couldn't keep them from Muscle Shoals. They were already two hours late, but Roger could smooth that over easy enough. The band was there laying down the backing track anyway. He knew they were tight, so with his bad luck, their work was done for the day.
    The manager clenched his jaw as the engineer screamed at him over the phone. Roger was darting in and out of traffic on his way to Sheffield. “I know, I know. If it makes you feel any better, I’ll make your overtime come out of Colton’s weekly pay.”
    He looked over at his star. Colton’s face was wedged against the seatbelt, and even with the window down, Roger could smell the beer stench leaking from the singer’s pores. He knew that the engineer wouldn’t be the only one pissed off. Gracie, who by all accounts, was a sweet girl, and her manager/mom would be royally pissed. Roger prepared himself for the tongue lashing he knew he was in for.
    “Ten minutes. We’ll be there in ten goddamn minutes!” He disconnected the call and dropped the phone into the rental’s center console. It would take him fifteen minutes, but he wasn’t about to answer another call in between.
    Talking to himself, Roger tried to work through his career choices. “What the hell am I going to do with you, Colton? You’re either going to get sent to mandatory anger management, or get yourself killed before they can send you. Then I’m out of a job. The Guilty Party is back to being a second rate wedding band. You want that? You really want that?”
    Colton let out a lazy groan and gave a half-hearted attempt to shift the seatbelt from crushing his nose. Surprised, Roger turned, but Colton didn’t give any indication he was going to wake up. The GPS told Roger they were a mile away, and his singer was dead to the world. Drastic times, drastic measures, Roger mused.
    As he pulled

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