MORIANI HOME, CELLAR
"It was nothing," Ryan manages after
what seems to him far too long a silence. "Honestly. It's just difficult
to be around Claire -- especially in a situation like that. I'm sure you
can understand."
"Of course," Nick says. "And I'm
sorry that you had to spend the night in here. When you didn't show up
at the wedding I assumed that something had gone wrong, but I couldn't
very well slip away to check on you--"
"I can handle myself."
"I'm sure you can. But I think a
little assistance in getting out of here was necessary, no? I tried your
phone, but your voicemail answered."
"I left it in the house," Ryan says
absently.
"Ah. Well, on the plus side, you
did keep Claire from interrupting the wedding. Excellent work on that front."
"Everything went all right?"
"More than all right. Katherine's
son burst in and tried to convince her not to leave with me--"
"He didn't find anything out at the
pier, did he?"
"It certainly didn't seem like it.
If he did, he kept it to himself, and he was desperate enough that he would
not have done that."
"You stayed away from the pier, right?
Claire said that her husband
and Andy Fitch were going to be hanging around
there."
"Everything went quite smoothly with
the meeting, don't worry. And when Andrew came in -- I worried for a moment,
but Katherine really made him look like a fool. It was beautiful." He lapses
into quiet, patting his silver mustache. "I've got her, Ryan. I've got
her and I've got the money."
"You really think you can swing this?"
"Absolutely," Nick says breezily.
"Our debt is as good as gone ... all thanks to the new Mrs. Moriani."
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