30Molly had given up on Frances, who found it impossible to pick a wedding date given her constant waffling on whether even to go through with the ceremony at all. Now that she and Ben had a case, she needed to know what the couple had decided, secretly hoping the wedding would be called off—but just until the killer was caught. Molly went into Chez Papa when she was sure Frances was home working on a jingle, to see if Nico would set a date.
“How about two weeks? Can you pull it together that soon?” he said, sweetly hopeful.
“Uh…”
Nico looked crestfallen, and Molly was so charmed by his fervor to wed her twice-divorced best pal that she readily agreed. “Okay, yes, of course I can pull it together. It’s just a wedding, right? Not the crowning of a monarch?”
“Your mind goes to strange pl
