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His expression veered froathered was understanding "Okay You’re right You need to do this So you do that, and wewell, let’s talk about this charity and hoe can turn it into PR gold"
I burst into incredulous laughter "You’re incorrigible"
My sto short of devilish "That’s show business"
I DIDN’T KNOW THEN AS I called Gayle that it would change the course my life was currently on I only knew that I owed her the kind of apology it would take a dozen lifetiood Of course, I didn’t have my old phone with my contacts in it anymore but I remembered Gayle would send our schedules and tour info via email and she always included her direct nued into my email, I found all the most recent mail was junk I was scared to scroll further down, in case I discovered the guys had tried to reach out over the last twenty-one months I typed in Gayle’s naia in ht throw up, and I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to hear her becauseloud
"Gayle Abernathy," she answered "Hello? Hello, anyone there?"
Struggling to get the words out, I forced air out ofup now"
"Gayle, it’s ain
Silence reigned
She was definitely going to hang up now
"Skylar?" she whispered in disbelief
"Yes It’s me"
And more silence
"Gayle?"
"One second" I heard a door open and close in the background and then, "Where the fuck have you been?"
I flinched hearing the treer "I’m so sorry"
"Sorry? You’re sorry? I’ve been worried sick, kid We thought you were dead and we couldn’t put a freakingpersons out on you because of the letter and voice off The cops refused to consider it aindefinitely All you had left were a couple of ally dead because you haven’t touched any of your money How did you survive without , you little brat?" She ended on a yelled sob
My God
Gayle never cried
"GayleIthere aren’t enough sorrys in the world"
She sniffled "You bet your ass there aren’t Oh my God, Skylar I’et a phone call in ratitude welled in "
"Yeah, you did So why now and not then?"
"Tiive It was like I was sleeping for a long time and now I’h this I woke up with a ive"
"Where are you?"
I told her Everything The whole sordid story The only thing I left out was my romantic relationship with Killian, so unfortunately, she didn’t get to kno good things were for me now