Niki walked with him, not exactly minding where they ended up as long as they were somewhere comfortable. Because Niki didn’t want silence between them as they headed inside she decided that telling her story now would ease the tension once they found a suitable place to sit. The more “gruesome” parts of her story could be saved for when Rory was firmly seated and comfortable.
“I’m from Las Vegas. I used to work as a casino worker but that didn’t pay off as much as I would have hoped for. I have a son, Micah, he’s a really smart boy and in order to make sure he got the right education I needed money to pay for his tuition. Because I didn’t have the money I had no choice but to go to a mafia overlord. I was desperate so I asked him for money that I had trouble paying back. That’s really when all my trouble started.” Niki fell quiet, wondering if she needed to really explain Linderman in more detail about what kind of monster he really was.