2482 COURT STREET, APARTMENT BUILDING
This better work,
Stan thinks
as he makes his way down the corridor, scanning the apartment doors on
his right and left for the correct number. This has to work, because it's
pretty much his last resort.
He offers up a silent curse against
Nick Moriani. If he'd just been more cooperative -- maybe given Stan some
insight into Ryan's
behavior instead of dropping veiled hints and threats
-- then maybe this wouldn't be necessary.
His efforts to speak with Ryan in
the last few days have been totally unsuccessful. He hasn't been home at
any of times Stan has dropped by, and the handful of phone calls have gone
unreturned.
Time to figure out what the hell's
goin' on, Stan determines as he stops in front of the right apartment.
He raises his hand and knocks loudly. After a few seconds of no response,
agitation swells within him.
"I know you're in there," he mutters.
"I just watched you go in the building." And before that, he followed her
all the way from work. She must be here; there's no way she could have
gotten out--
The door flies open and severs those
thoughts. The woman who appears before him looks frazzled enough as it
is, but he recognizes her quite well even across all these years. Her face
is the same, with that distinct bone structure, the prominent but not too-large
nose, the enticing gray eyes. She has matured, definitely, but it is clearly
her. And she is as beautiful as she ever was, he has to note.
"Claire,"
he says, a little bit short
of breath. "You remember me? Ryan's dad -- Stan Lincoln."
He extends a hand for a shake but
she makes no move to take it. But everything about her -- the knowledge
in her face, the way her body has tensed suddenly, her fingers' tightened
grip on the open door -- makes it quite clear that she does recognize him.
"Can I come in?" he asks as he tries
to figure out what is going on. "There's somethin' I hope you can help
me with."
She is too frozen to answer.
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