“So, I’m sorry to be rude, but I do need to ask if you’ve brought the money.” The sweet old lady really did look apologetic.
“Right here.” Sully set the briefcase on the table.
“Oh, wonderful! Please open it, slide it over.”
Sully complied and she quickly checked the money, smiled sunnily when she saw that it was the demanded half-a-million dollars.
She clicked it closed and sat back a bit.
“Well, now that that awkwardness is over, let me tell you what happens next.”
“Alright,” Sully said. “That would be great.”
“So, I’m afraid now the hard part begins,” she said. “Because now you have to wait.”
“How long?” Cordelia asked, and decided to throw out the name of the woman at the adoption agency. “Tiffany said it would happen quickly once we paid the money.”
The woman was genuinely p
