As luck would have it, their room is right next to ours. Leslie is draped across Rick as he swipes his card and opens the door. He turns to us for a b...ief second and says “Good night” before the door closes behind them. Kyle looks after them for a second, then shakes his head in disbelief. “I had no idea they were getting back together,” he says. “Does that bother you at all?” “Only because she was such a bitch to him before,” I say. “And the divorce was so hard on him. I hope she doesn’t. . Short fused right now. I think you really got her with the patent thing. She had the money but doesn’t want to spend that much of it here with you all. Oh, well. Bye, guys.”And left. They kept calling to him and he just raised his hands, as if to say, ‘what can I do?’On the way out the door, I said, “Well, that was interesting. You just allowed a petulant little snot nosed brat to ruin some project worth millions. How in the FUCK did that happen?”“I didn’t allow anything. You haven’t ruined. There was a really cute guy at the far end but he looked way too spaced outto be any good. As for the one in the middle he looked far too pissed off to be friendly. But at least the other guy looks nice.He looks so much like a happy version of pissed off guy it's got to be his brother. But at least one of them looks promising.Fortunately he's the one who eventually broke the ice. As for his brother,Vinnie was right about him. He defiantly had a mean bark."Just so you know," he began. "We. In the past Dave had wondered about why Julie had insisted on filing separate returns, rather than a joint one. Now, he understood why.But somehow, the money didn't seem real -- it was just numbers that were supposed to apply to him but he couldn't comprehend. It was Julie's money, and that was that. Maybe it was part of the denial he'd been feeling about Julie, and accounted for his mental refusal to step up to that reality. Even with Tietelbaum's help, he still only had a general idea of what.