He had just made it to the bottom step when he heard Brit splashing down the stairs behind him, then she suddenly jumped up on his back and clung to h...s shoulders."Hey!" he laughed."Hey what?" she asked."Hey you're too old for piggyback rides. And I'm too old to be able to hold you up." You're not too old," she told him with a grin. "You're just right." She kissed him on the cheek, then climbed down and splashed toward the deeper end of the pool.Allison and Rachael slipped into the pool as. "I'm ready, Mrs. Nesbitt. Send him in and hold my calls."The tall padded door opened, not fully, but enough to admit Bernie Silbers, Bennie's old rival and competing casino owner. Slightly taller than average, trim, with a steel gray mane behind a receding pate, impeccably dressed in a gray pinstripe, the first estimate of him would have been a competent professional, and that would not have been wrong. But his profession was not law, or medicine, or accounting, but the profession of odds and. .it sounded to me like you didn't get much fun out of it. If you get what I mean." Oh." I said, my face flushing. "Well...it was fun I suppose. I didn't dislike it." I hope that I've never left a girl thinking that at least she didn't dislike it." said Delray derisively. "You don't even really realize what you missed, do you?" Well...I suppose it should have felt better than it did somehow. He seemed to enjoy it more than I did." I remembered the fire in Andrew's eyes, the tension in his body. Thank you for the double treat!”Alice and Natalie had returned and had slipped into thebooth on either side of Leon. Leon was very gifted whenit came to women and he knew it. Neither of the twowives appeared to be concerned about where Jack haddisappeared to.Jack stood next to the bar and ordered a drink and bythe time the bartender got around to handing him whathe ordered and turned around, Leon was out dancing onthe floor with Natalie in his arms. They were dancingto a slow song and.