She had sent the invitations to her family a couple weeks before. She doesn't know if she should worry that she has had no reply since. She can't decide if she wants them at her wedding.

Tommy wants a big wedding. He wants everyone they have relations with to be there.
She thinks he wants to show off his wealth and his success... She also believes that he wants to make a statement of their wedding. He doesn't want them to hide their relationship. The way they met is in the past. Even if only a few people know she betrayed him, there had been rumors and her disappearance had seemed strange to many.
He won't allow room for anyone to doubt their union.
She is also very happy and very proud to marry him, but she would have been fine with a more intimate ceremony with only his family.

Before sending the letter, she had had to announce to her uncle that she was getting married.
The call would have been less tense if she hadn't called him a few weeks prior, to inform him that she had declined to marry Clive.
He had made the proposal public by asking him for her hand in marriage. So Grace had to explain to her uncle why she wouldn't marry him.
Her uncle had always been a paternal figure to her. Even before her father died, he was very protective of Grace.
She knows he worries about her. But since the murder of her father, she had taken her destiny in her own hands. She had contacted Campbell and engaged in the police despite her uncle's opposition.
She had lived alone in Birmingham, New-York, London far away from her family and with very limited contact with them.
She has her own heritage, she had been working for 5 years to earn her living and never had asked them for money.
She believes that she doesn't have to justify herself, doesn't have to justify the choices she is making, even when they aren't usual or the safest for a woman of her social rank.
Nevertheless, she was getting married with a man he had never heard of before, just a few weeks after refusing to marry in one of the best families in London, looking at it with his perspective she could understand his reluctance.
That wouldn't undermine her determination to marry Tommy.

When she enters his office, Tommy is in a strange mood.

"I had one very awkward conversation this morning."
"Yes?"
"Your uncle called."
"Oh" she is a bit worried.
"They'll come to the wedding."
"Really?"
"I think he fears that I'm threatening you. That somehow I have a way to pressure you into marriage. He wants to see for himself if you're really willing. I obviously haven't told him that we met 3 years ago, not 3 weeks ago…The only thing that he seemed to approve about my resume are my medals. But he wasn't impressed when I told him they were in the Cut."
"I'll talk to him".
"It doesn't matter, he really wanted to make it clear that he despises me, despises my Gipsy origins, and despises how I have acquired my wealth."
"He shouldn't have. If you don't want them at our wedding, I'll write to them. I don't need their approval."
"Oh, but I want them there. I want them to witness our success and our happiness."
"But, they'll eventually find out how we met." she worries.
"I doubt that. The only ones who have known you were working for the police are the family and Harry. They are not going to gossip at the wedding. They know better."
"Anyway, he seems well informed. And he is right, I'm not the most recommendable bachelor"
"No, he isn't right. He doesn't know anything about you. He doesn't know what an extraordinary man you are. I'm taking all Thomas, the dangerous gangster, the ambitious businessman, the veteran, the romani heritage, the caring and sensitive man. You're the only one whose happiness matters to me." she says, holding his face between her hands looking straight in his eyes to convince him of the depth of her love, "You're the only family I need."
"I know." he says, encircling her waist with his arm.

His lips have barely touched hers that they hear the sound of breaking glass in the lobby.

"Who was here when you entered?"
"Lizzy was leaving, all the others were on lunch break."
She hasn't finished her sentence that he is out of the door.
She takes her gun out of her bag, takes the phone and hides under his desk. She hears shots as the call connects to Watery Lane.
Tommy soon is back in his office, barring the door and putting a cabinet against it. He collapses against the cabinet.
"Come here, we're safe for the moment."
"Who are they?"
"I don't know yet"
"Tommy you're hurt!"
"It's ok, it's only a scratch."
"But it's really bleeding" She puts her handkerchief against the wound on his scalp. "They have barely missed you."
"Yeah, but they did miss me. We are safe here. They are trapped. Now that you've called, it won't be long before Arthur or John come in."
They are sitting close. Her right arm encircling his shoulder to put pressure on his wound with her handkerchief.
He lights up a cigarette.
After his first inhale, she steals it from him,"Care to share?"
"I'm a bad influence on you."
"I haven't waited to meet you to lead a life my family disapprove of"
He smiles.
There is a pause where he listens to the sounds beyond the door.

"We won't always live this life. We'll establish ourselves as a wealthy family with legitimate businesses."
"I know"
"I've found a home"
"Where?"
"Outside of town, 30 minutes from Watery Lane. Arrow house, it's a mansion with a large domain, where our children could grow far from the city."
"When can we visit?"
"I've bought it. They needed money urgently. They left everything behind them, but obviously you can get rid of everything you don't want and have free reign to buy everything new. We'll have to find competent and trustworthy staff. I'd leave that task to you. I've told the ones attached to the house that they would need to meet with you."
"When did you buy it? How is it that I hear from it only now?"
"It all happened yesterday. I was going to tell you at lunch, it's an engagement gift, but it seems that our lunch date will have to wait."