Sam recalled that she and Alexis hadn't gotten along at all when Sam had learned many years earlier that Alexis was her mother. Nina protested that she was still Willow's mother.

Sam recalled that Carly had become a 'friend and mentor' to Willow. Sam said the person who had tipped off the SEC at the time of the wedding had been 'heartless.' Sam said that the wedding had been perfect until the SEC officials had shown up. Nearby, Nina asked Sam to tell her about Willow's wedding. Dante said he suspected the SEC had a good case against Carly. Carly said she wasn't surprised that Sonny had helped her. Carly claimed to hate that her family was divided, but she said she still didn't accept Sonny's choices.ĭante wasn't interested in hearing Carly recall any of her and Sonny's troubles from the past year. Carly brought up Sonny's involvement in having Drew's flight itinerary scrambled to mislead the SEC. 'No doubt,' Sonny said.Īt the hospital, Carly pressed Dante for information about what the SEC might have against her. Diane wondered if Carly would do the same for Sonny if the situation was reversed. Sonny said anything he did was in Carly's best interests.

Sonny asked if the authorities would offer Carly a deal to give up Drew. Diane said that Drew had been the one who had violated SEC rules by disclosing news about the Aurora/ELQ merger. Sonny surmised that Drew was the SEC's primary target. 'That is the textbook definition of insider trading,' Diane said. Diane recalled that Carly had been in possession of privileged information because of Carly's personal relationship with Drew. Sonny proposed that he and Diane learn who had tipped off the authorities so that they could 'discredit' the source.

Sonny replied that the case couldn't go to trial.ĭiane said it was impossible to make the case go away. Diane told Sonny about Carly's case in hypothetical terms, and she shared that she felt the SEC could prove insider trading if the case went to trial. In Sonny's office at Pozzulo's, Sonny told Diane that he wanted to help with Carly's troubles with the SEC.

The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm