Chapter Seven Getting Walked A weekend trip was less expensive for Paul, even though he spent more time sitting at the stage, because Destiny didn’t collect a fee for the attention she granted him as one of her weeknight boys. He paid the door fee to wear Destiny’s collar, between forty and sixty for stage dances, and then eighty for his two dances, with Destiny, at the end. He’d been put in enough ignominious positions by Destiny over the last few weeks that what she’d said to him about walking him lingered as nothing more than a curiosity. Until he located her in the bulging and exuberant Saturday night crowd, and she excused herself from a table where she was sitting with a couple of men and Selena. She took only a few steps away and Paul could tell by the way she stood waiting for

