The High Notes by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2022-08-22T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

A week later, Pattie had to call Glen and give him the bad news. Her mother was in the hospital, and there was no one to take care of her son, Jimmy. She had to leave the tour.

“Bullshit!” he shouted at her, and knew immediately why she was doing it. She was following Iris’s example and thought she could walk out on her contract because Iris had, but it had nothing to do with it. “I’ll have you put in jail if you leave,” he threatened her.

“There’s nothing I can do,” Pattie said. “My mom’s in the hospital. She can’t take care of my son. He’s at a neighbor’s and I can’t leave him there. You don’t pay me enough to hire childcare for him,” she said bluntly. “I’ll come back when Mom’s better, but I’ve got to leave today. I don’t want my son to wind up in foster care.”

“I won’t pay you a penny while you’re gone,” he warned her. She knew he wouldn’t, and she knew she would have to waitress or work at the 7-Eleven, whatever she had to do for now. Jimmy was the priority for her, not the tour. She was lucky her mom had taken care of him for eleven years. Now it was Pattie’s turn to be a mom.

“I just wanted to let you know. I’m not running out on you. I’m giving you notice that I have to go home for a family emergency.” She was doing everything by the book, and Glen didn’t care. He hung up on her without another word. She took the bus to Biloxi, Mississippi, that night. She sent Iris a text to let her know she had left the tour, and Iris texted back that she hoped her mom would be okay soon.

As soon as Boy’s single was released, the publicity office of Maddox Productions booked him onto various radio shows and a couple of TV shows to publicize it. On two of the TV shows, he was booked to perform his single, which was flying up the charts and rapidly becoming a hit. Boy asked the publicity office if they would book Iris on the show with him, so they could do a duet. Iris thought it sounded like fun. The show accepted, and Boy and Iris had been rehearsing one of her songs. It was the one they both liked best, and gave Iris a chance to show her stuff too. Clay thought it was a good idea, and would give the public a glimpse of her, as a teaser for her own album that would be released soon.

They were booked onto a late-night talk show, the most popular one, and their performance was thrilling. Boy’s first single was a big hit that week and way up on the charts. They were two beautiful young people performing and the studio audience went crazy. So did the ratings. Their first TV appearance was a huge success. Someone from Glen Hendrix’s office called him when they saw it.

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