Chapter 130: The Shootout
After the party, Marcella and Tony returned home with Joey. Rather than leaving him at home with the babysitter, they decided to have him with them. Rosy was delighted to be reunited with Joey.
Some wanted to meet Joey. Marcella showed Joey to her father’s friends who were excited to meet his grandson. Joey too was excited seeing so many new faces that night. It was well past his bedtime but he had a good time meeting new people and getting cooed at.
Louis Fletcher came to the party really late. Marcella talked to him for some time. Rudolf Hemmingway came to the party with his girlfriend. She looked like a nice person and Marcella didn’t know whether that woman knew Rudolf’s preferences. She wondered if she should talk about it to her or if she should leave it for her to figure out.
Tony understood her dilemma and asked her not to interfere in the lives of other people. Marcella found that would be preferable as it is the easy route. Well, it should have been easy to ignore other people’s business but she found it hard to not speak about Ralph’s affiliations to his date.
But Tony is right. It’s not her business and she didn’t want to poke her nose into someone else’s personal life.
John Emerson stayed until the end. Some of his colleagues joined later too. Marcella had invited them. They stayed until the party was finished. She got close to them. If they weren’t trying to get her husband arrested, she would call them her friends. Marcella introduced Tony to everyone.
John Emerson wanted to hold Joey. Marcella let him. He looked emotional as he held Joey. Marcella could see that he loved her sister very much. She didn’t understand why her father didn’t let him date her sister. She felt sorry for John.
John mentioned that the commissioner of police wanted to talk to her. Marcella didn’t know what that was about as he didn’t tell her the details. He said that he wanted her help though.
Marcella was too happy to worry about what the commissioner might want.
As they were leaving, the agents followed them. Tony looked fidgety and only then Marcella noticed that John Emerson was not staying because he was enjoying the party too much.