Jenny frowned at the innocent-looking envelope in her hand. "Kev, honey?" She called out, walking into the living room.
"Yeah Jenny?" Ryan walked out from the bedroom and up behind Jenny, wrapping his arms around her.
"Did you change insurance companies without telling me?" She handed him the envelope.
"No. Of course not." Ryan frowned at the envelope. He pulled reluctantly away from his bride and took the envelope. Opening it, he quickly scanned the contents. Blinking hard, he re-read the papers carefully, walking away from Jenny in a daze.
Between the scared look on Castle's face when Slaughter summoned him and the situation he and Esposito had discovered him in at the confrontation with the Vales gang, Ryan worried that they had gone too far in their demands in exchange for their help. But it had hurt so much to see Castle running with that deranged detective. Ryan hadn't truly realised until that moment just how much Castle had become part of their little family.
Jenny bit her lip as her husband walked away. When he stood there, gazing at nothing, she walked up to him. She raised her hand, but hesitated to touch him. "Kev?"
Ryan started, then smiled at her. He held up his arm and she walked into his embrace.
"Is everything all right, Kevin?"
"Yeah, honey. It's going to be." He repeated, "It's going to be," as he dropped a kiss into her hair.
Jenny looked up, confused. Ryan smiled and handed her the papers. She read them; her confusion growing. "Kevin, why are you on Richard Castle's car insurance for his Ferrari?"
Ryan laughed, a bit shakily. "It's a long story."
Jenny pursed her lips in mock annoyance. "Is this a guy thing?"
Ryan laughed again, this time in sincere amusement. "Yeah, I would say this is a guy thing." Just then his phone beeped. Ryan checked the message. "Definitely a guy thing."
She quirked an eyebrow. "Javi got one too?"
"Yup," he answered as he typed back a reply one-handed.
"So if this is a guy thing, then Kate didn't get one?" Jenny asked innocently.
"Uh..." Ryan's eyes flew wide. This didn't technically involve Beckett as it was he and Esposito that Castle asked, and she didn't know about what they demanded as payment. But. . .it was them he had asked, not Beckett, at least until they forced him to go to her. And the weirdness between Castle and Beckett...Could that be why Castle cheated on them with Slaughter? And if Beckett found out that he had put the boys on his insurance and not her...this could be bad. Very bad. "Jenny, let's not mention this to Beckett unless we know for sure if she got one, too. Okay?"
"Okay." Jenny shook her head. Sometimes she didn't know how Kate and Lanie could stand working with men who could be such little boys at times. "I'm going to go start dinner." She moved away, though not without a kiss for her husband, which turned into several by the time they were willing to let go.
After watching Jenny leave for the kitchen, Ryan dialled Esposito. "Hey, Javi. I just had a thought about Castle and that thing with Slaughter. I think it might have something to do with Beckett..."
