Serenity
For the next several weeks, there was no singing, no healing, no VIP customers at night. Just Zeke. True to his word, he never laid a finger on me. We just talked or played cards. One day, he came to the bar carrying a brand-new TV with something called a Roku stick attached to it. When we weren’t playing cards or talking, we were watching movies. There were so many movies that I had never seen before. I stared excitedly at the TV as I laughed, cried and everything in between. Zeke seemed content doing whatever I wanted to do. He even forced Bruce to let me out for walks down by the river. It was nice. I felt like, for a moment, I was free. But then Zeke would go home for the night, and not return until the following evening. Leaving me alone with Bruce and Fatima.
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