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.