" Yes?" One of the guys looked up. Darbie was smiling."Stand up, and take off your pants. Then take a shit on Arianna's plate."Jace glanced at his bea...tiful girlfriend Arianna, who sat next to him, then stood up, working his jeans down.The smile never left the girl's face as Jace breathed a grunt of relief, then laughed at a joke from A.J. while pulling his pants up and sitting back down, ass once again situated away from Arianna's face as normal. He went straight back to hounding his fellow. “No. It’ll help us narrow our focus, which is something that I’ve worried about. If we eliminate Purina from the mix, those two software packages don’t even make half of what we make in consulting revenue at this point. Forget about comparing them to the legal and medical software.”“This could give us some operating capital to expand,” Dave said.I laughed hard, “Let me guess. Cindi talked to you about this!”He smiled, “That may have happened.”“She’s a crafty one, that ex-girlfriend of yours!. "Heard that Helen finally dumped you."Not true; I had thrown her ass out, but I just nodded a yes."I could never understand why she stayed with you, but I guess it takes all kinds to make the world go around. I guess she probably stayed with you so she could feel good about sticking it to you."I was about to stand up and grab him by the throat and stomp the shit out of him, but something in the back of my brain was telling me to cool it and maybe find out some things. God knows he seemed to. Of course not. It was all so obvious now. He really had been as stupid a fool and idiot as Victoria had claimed. What must Keri think of him now? He realized that she was trying to be nice, coming down to see him. But he couldn’t face her. He was far too ashamed. As the week went on though, Sam’s agony only intensified as the aching void that for the first time in his life had begun to trickle full, once again became an empty and bottomless chasm. In his heart he had always known that reaching.