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I’d go and pray to God Almighty she wasn’t unbearable.
Chapter 5
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“In the dimmest light, at the height of freight, when nothing goes right, and all you feel is pain, I’ll be at your side—no. Let’s start from the top again. I messed up,” I said into the microphone.
“Maybe we should take a break?”
“No.” I lifted one of the headphones from my ear and glanced at the producer behind the glass. “We want to finish this song today.”
“Are you okay?” he asked me.
“Yeah. Why?”
“You seem...off. And...it’s not bad at all. You aren’t hitting the note the way you want, but with a little—”
“No auto-tune.”
“Okay, but at least give your voice a break because you apparently don’t like how you sound.”
“And you shouldn’t, either. You sound like someone is waterboarding you with vodka and salt,” my mother so eloquently—and loudly—said into the mic, causing me to flinch.
“Mom, I’m working here.”
“Keep working then. I’m not stopping you. Right, guys?” she said to everyone in the studio.
Taking off my headphones completely, I hung them on the stand before I marched around the wire, out of the booth, and into the studio. She sat like the Pink Panther herself, in a fitted, pink leather dress, eating popcorn from a bowl.
“Why did you come out, sweetheart? You aren’t finished,” she had the audacity to say.
My eyes narrowed at the sickly sweet tone of her voice. Ever since our little discussion last night, I felt on edge. No, more specifically, I felt stressed because I was sure she hadn’t given up. However, she didn’t bring it up and acted as if she hadn’t tried to secretly marry me off to some royal.
“Let’s take five, guys.” I shot a glance around the studio, and one by one, my producer, mixer, and my agent all quickly picked up their phones and walked out.
“I brought some snacks for you all. Please help yourselves.” Wilhelmina leaned over her chair to call out behind me. She focused on me, lifting the bowl toward me. “Try this. It is so good and—”
