Danny is my boy. I just want to make that clear. We have been through a lot together. He's a good guy. But… that boy is either blind or stupid. Hey, maybe he's both – I don't know.
You see, Danny has a thing for the all-American girl next-door types. I noticed this during that poker tournament the Montecito held. He was kind of checking out that school teacher – who, as yours truly discovered, was a fraud. I swear I don't know how they survived in surveillance before I got up there.
Anyway, Danny? He seems to like the wholesome and pure looking types. And it's probably because of Mary. She's hot. Not really my type, but she's a good-looking girl. She's very caring and nurturing. She is getting a little bossy now, though.
I was the one who took him to the airport when he got deployed to Iraq. I knew exactly where to pick him up. He had left me his car before he left. Man… that car is sweet. Anyway, the man honestly thought that I would let him take a cab and not have anyone see him off. He's stubborn, did you know that?
That last night at the Montecito before Monica imploded the place was something else. Of course, we didn't know it was Monica buying the place then. We all had assumed that Casey was going to be the new owner.
Sam quit and Nessa and Delinda took off to England. I wonder about Nessa. I wonder how she is and what she's up to. What can I say? Seeing Mary and Danny made us think that maybe not all work romances were bad. Because Danny and Delinda? Ooh… that was bad. Everyone knows not to mess around with Big Ed's daughter. But I guess Danny didn't know then.
Danny watched Mary on his monitor whenever he wasn't in the floor that last night. I kept grilling him about her trip with Jake. I mean, that man is worth a lot of money. I mean millions. I kept trying to pry into Danny's thoughts on the two of them. It baffled me that he would let her go away with another man.
But he let her go to Hawaii and all of us – me, Delinda, Sam, Mitch, Ed… we were the ones who got punished for it. That just wasn't fair.
I saw Mary watch me sing onstage with my aunt Gladys. I saw her leave and I don't think she said good-bye to Danny before she left. Man… if only that driver came to get her just a few minutes later. Jenny – Danny's girlfriend at the time – was telling him that Larry was killed in a car accident as Mary was walking out.
Those three weeks without Mary was tough. That man was unbearable. None of us could get a hold of her after the first week she was gone. It was like she shut her phone off because she got sick of hearing from us or something – very un-Mary like. But then she explained that she had lost her phone when she got back.
Did you know that Danny's eyes kind of glaze over whenever you mention Mary's name? For just a split second. And whenever he talks to her, he has a goofy grin on his face.
I have never seen a man out of a room so fast. That night Jake came in to propose to Mary. Oh man… he bolted out of surveillance. It was actually kind of funny watching the President of Operations act like that.
We were watching some shady dealings going on that night on the floor when we just happened to pick up Jake getting down on one knee. Mary had moved out on Jake earlier that day. I guess he thought that proposing was a good way to apologize.
Mitch and I watched on the monitor to see what Danny was going to do. Hell, I don't know. For all we knew, he was going to ban Jake from the casino. But it looks like Mary did that on her own.
Before, I always got the feeling that Danny was the one with reservations. After she broke off their engagement, he seemed ok - a little aloof, but all right. But once Jake entered the picture, he was suddenly possessive. He was always watching them whenever they were in the casino together.
So now they're both single again. You can tell that they want to be together. But I think Mary is being the stubborn one now – and she's bossier now, too. Did I already mention that? Because she is. She used to be sweet, docile Mary. I think Danny boy has his work cut out for him.