That Night at the Palace
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“My father was a bookie, he a womanizer, and he was a rapist. For all I know he may have been a murderer, too. And all that time Jesse was protecting me from knowing what kind of man he was. All those years he kept that secret. I hated him, and he was just trying to protect me.”
“Do you still love him, Grandmother?”
Gemma smiled and reached across the table and took Jeana’s hand. “I loved your grandfather. He was a good man. He gave me a daughter, and I have the best granddaughter I could ever have asked for.”
She paused, searching for words as her eyes moistened.
“Jesse would have gone to prison to keep me from knowing what kind of men my father and uncle were. If you had asked me that yesterday, I might have said, no. But right now I think I love him more than I ever did.”
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First I must say a special thank you to Deanna Darr for her efforts at editing my poor attempts at writing. Her hard work turned a series of misspelled words followed by misused commas into what you just read. I can’t begin to thank her enough.
Secondly, I have to express my appreciation to Dawn at Austin Design Works www.austindesignworks.com for her cover and website design. She did a masterful job and I can’t begin to express how proud I am of her work.
I would also like to thank Greg Hill, Kim Cook, John Pevoto, and Carolyn Smith for going through the book for a final edit. It is amazing how many errors a few extra sets of eyes can find.
I hope you enjoyed this yarn. I’m hard at work on the next one. For more information and updates come to my website www.LDWatson.com and go see my pictures at www.LDPix.com.
About L.D. Watson
L.D. is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied film and television. He has a long career in film and video with credits that include television shows, commercials, and motion pictures. Like a lot of people in that industry L.D. has written a number of screenplays including one that was a jury finalist at the Houston International Film Festival.
He’s a Christ Follower and a Texan to the core. He likes to say that he owns two types of shoes; flip-flops and cowboy boots. He loves to ride horses but he hates being called a cowboy. As he once said, “I don’t dip snuff, I’ve never owned a pair of Wranglers, and I hate country music, unless you count ZZ Top as country, of course.”
Most weekends he can be found driving across Texas with his camera taking pictures for his website www.LDpix.com. His photographic philosophy is simply that, “There’s pictures everywhere, you just got to find a way to get them into your camera.”
He is writer or contributor on three different blogs and once published a weekly newsletter titled, “Mondays”. Currently he is focusing on his two blogs, LD talk and PixTalk. And, of course he’s hard at work on his third novel.