Chapter 11 - No wedding
The wedding was canceled.
No ambiguity.
Venue notified.
Guests notified.
Vendors handled according to contracts.
Deposits lost:
About $190,000.
Some recovered.
Some not.
I paid my obligations.
Victoria paid hers.
No lawsuit over flowers.
Then engagement ring.
Value:
$620,000.
I requested return through counsel.
Victoria resisted.
Conditional gift law complicated by who ended engagement and why.
Eventually settled later.
No public scene.
Then Victoria moved from Marconi mansion.
She had no ownership.
She had lived there under relationship permission.
Her belongings collected under agreed schedule.
No armed men.
No threat.
Despite my reputation, I did not use criminal associates to solve domestic conflict.
That reputation already made police cautious around me.
I wanted clean records.
Then Noah.
For several nights:
“Victoria come?”
“No.”
“Wedding?”
“No wedding.”
“Sophie?”
“With her dad.”
“Chair?”
I laughed softly.
“Chair is safe.”
May you like
He nodded.
That was enough.
