Nick was setting out chairs under the canopy when he heard a car pull up. Since the other guests that weren't immediate Stokes family weren't arriving for a few hours, Nick went around the house to investigate.

A tall man was getting out of a rental car.

"Can I help you?" Nick asked.

"Is this the Stokes place?" The man inquired.

"Yes." Nick replied.

"I'm looking for Jillian Stokes or Clint Talbot?" He shifted awkwardly.

Nick turned around; his mother was just coming out the house.

"Mom, you have a visitor." Nick yelled.

"What did I tell you about shouting Nicholas?" Jillian walked over.

"He who shouts loudest gets heard?" Nick joked.

"Howdy." Jillian said to the man.

"I'm Ray we spoke on the phone."

"Of course. I'm Jillian Stokes, I'm glad you found the place alright."

"The directions were pretty good." He shrugged.

"Nick, would you go and get Sara? She's in the kitchen painting your nieces fingernails." Jillian requested.

"Okay." Nick was a little confused as to who the man was.

Nick went inside and returned with Sara a few minutes later.

"Jillian, you wanted to see me?" Sara questioned.

"Hi Star." The man said, Sara's eyes went instantly to him. It took her a second to recognise him.

"Oh my god Ray." She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.

"It's good to see you." He whispered.

"It's good to see you too." Sara pulled back to look at him. "You got taller."

"So did you." The man stated.

"How did you…?" Sara turned to Jillian.

"It's what family does." Jillian shrugged. "Well I have things to do. The barn should be quiet if you want to catch up for a while."

Nick was still confused as to who exactly the man his wife was hugging.

"Sorry." Sara said noticing the look on Nick's face. "Nick, this is my brother Ray. Ray my husband Nick."

"Nice to meet you." Ray said.

"Yeah you too."

"It's still Ray right?" Sara asked.

"Ray Milton." He replied. "I changed my name."

"I changed mine to Sara as soon as I could." Sara added. "Twenty years is a long time."

"I know." Ray agreed.

"I'll leave you to catch up." Nick said.

"Barn's this way." Sara nodded in the direction of the barn. "I can't believe they found you."

"I can't believe it either I thought I did a pretty good job of hiding my tracks. But it seems your brother-in-law in a good PI."

"The whole family is connected to law enforcement some how." Sara explained. "They're good."

"It seems you landed on your feet." Ray commented.

"Nick and his family are the good kind. It definitely took a lot for me to trust him. But it's worth it."

"His mother invited me to the wedding. She said you were having a wedding for family."

"We got married in Vegas where we live, only Nick's parents and our friends were there. We thought we'd have a wedding for his family and then we're going on honeymoon tomorrow. But last night his sister and her ex-husband decided to get re-married so we're having a wedding for them too." Sara explained. "You know I saw her."

"When?" Ray asked.

"She got a lawyer to convince a judge to give her an appeal on her sentence and I got subpoenaed to testify. Two days after we got married. She got released on parole and turned up where we work, Nick called to check whether she was supposed to have left California he ended up having to get her arrested. She had the gall to blame Nick for everything. So I told her when she gets out to stay away from me. They were looking for you to testify too."

"I guess I managed to keep away that thankfully. I don't want to see her." He paused. "So what happened to you?"

"I got kicked around foster care until I was 18. Then I got a full scholarship to Harvard. I worked as criminalist in the San Francisco's coroner's office before I moved to Vegas to work in their crime lab about five years ago, which is where I met Nick."

"You did well for yourself." Ray agreed.

"What about you?" Sara sat on a bale of hay.

"I rebelled and skipped out of foster care before I was 17. I spent almost ten years drunk and high until I OD'd. I went through detox, changed my name and started over. I've got a wife Sally, four year old twin boys Mark and Paul and little girl on the way. I've got pictures."

"That's great. Where do you live now?"

"Idaho." He replied. "Just outside Twin Falls Idaho."

"That's less than 700 miles away."

TBC