He laughed nervously:
— All the wedding money will go to you.
One of the men grinned:
— And the bride? What will she say when you start gathering money to hand over to us?
The groom snorted:
— She mustn’t know anything. I’ll tell her I spent it all on the restaurant, the music, the photographer. She trusts me — she won’t check.
The recording ended.
A heavy, sticky silence filled the room.
The mother-in-law whispered, trembling:
— He… he wants to marry our daughter for the money? To pay off criminals?
— No, — the father-in-law said quietly. — That’s it. I won’t allow our daughter to marry him.
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