But as they opened the second bottle of wine, the tenor of Keryl’s voice grew more relaxed, and those azure blue eyes sparkled more often. Katy, by ...ontrast, seemed consistently bubbly, eager, teasing--game for almost anything. Jim wanted to fuck them both, he admitted to himself. But he knew well that was not in the cards—and anyway, he’d be unable not to see that as cheating on his wife. The rest of this, he rationalized, was just ... well, partying, for lack of a better word.Things had. ” Then she leaned in and kissed me. She kissed on my lips. “Now didn’t you like how that felt?” she asked in a sweet almost adorable sounding voice. I could not believe it. She left me thinking about that kiss of hers and wow, I told myself, that was a nice kiss. However, I shook my head. I started trying to think about work but I started thinking about Vanessa, then Theresa for that matter, and I also began thinking about Lucy and her body. I asked myself what the hell was going on. I asked. "There's atwo-year contract that you sign on the lease with the homeowner. If atthe end of that contract you don't have a mutually beneficial situationthen you can choose to come home." How many do that?" I asked."Pardon?" How many choose to come home?"She looked thoughtfully. "Since we opened this building up three yearsago, I can only recall one. It was a tough circumstance because thehomeowner there passed away unexpectedly. The woman decided that ratherthan find another place there, she. Nobody said anything as there was nothing to say. We had no idea what to make of that bright flash nor if the good Pastor had actually seen something fly into the heavens or not. It was just another goddamned mystery that none of us were capable of solving.How fucking infuriating.“We got to get down there,” Jimmy finally announced. “We need to know what’s happening.”I studied my brother carefully and concluded there was no talking him off the ledge. “Fine,” I said after a long pause while.