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"Oh yeah, it's fine. I'm just signing the contract for an account." Nikki left it as that. She didn't feel like elaborating. Again, Nikki looked at the envelopes. "So, what's with all the checks? As far as I was aware, you weren't a businessman."

Alexander smiled big when she said she had no trouble with the people at the bank, they had been known to cause others trouble before. He smiles again at Nikki. "Yum... yes and no. I'm not a business man Nikki, your right on that, but there is a first time for everything, and your mother's Carnival needed the help." Alexander sighed and looked right into Nikki's eyes "I'm your mother's new business partner, er.. and I guess yours if you still want to be part of the Carnival and all. In exchange your mother as a top of the line lawyer- which I would have given to her without her signing the contract. These are bonus checks for each of the employees, one thousand five hundred dollars in each of these cheeks." Alexander looked Nikki in the eye.

"The Carnival was a good place, and it can be a great place again. Emily will have to have something to come back to, and yes, I don't want her to have any jail time either. She saved our lives, and that should account for something." Alexander waited for a reaction from Nikki. He wasn't really that much afraid of her, but it was her temper. He looked her in the eyes, he knew she had heard him. "Nikki, I'm a silent business partner... I have no say with what goes on, I simply pay for the bills."