Chapter 64
It was past midnight when they finished the meal. All that remained were emptied plates of crème brûlées, apple tarts, red velvet cake, and a split of Sandeman Tawny Port.
Kate knew better than to hurry a meal at Maloney & Porcelli’s. The maître d’ had given them the back corner table in the Mahogany Room. The walls and ceiling were fully paneled, a floor-to-ceiling glass-fronted wine cabinet covered one of the shorter walls and a beautiful oak bar one of the long ones. The rest of the room had long since emptied, leaving the seven of them owning the space: Kate and Rikka as the brains, Sam and a pair of FBI agents for enforcers, leaving Paul and Harold as what, her molls? It made Kate feel like a mafia mob boss and that was kind of fun.
It was the only part of it that was fu
