”I stepped out in the hall to talk to Stephanie.“I think you should head home, Squirt. Kara is in pretty bad shape and Doctor Mercer wants me to s...ay to make sure she eats.”“Come see me no matter what the time is. Dad knows and he’s concerned.”I hugged my sister and turned to go back into the room and almost ran into Doctor Mercer who was coming out.“Stay out a moment, Steve. I’m going to talk to the nurse about her dinner.”She went to the nurses’ station and came back after a quick. "I`m not sure where Jamie is. She's usually pretty good at keeping me updated of her whereabouts. Do you want to leave or would you like to continue to wait? I asked, hoping he'd choose the latter. I was starving for conversation with an intelligent man. "I would like to continue to wait, if that's okay with you, Shana. I got up from the couch and grabbed another bottle of wine from the fridge and a second glass. Well we both had a few more drinks, me more so than him. After I was good and. We are both Greeks from Cyprus, you see. We have owned this place for about seven years now. But you are going to repay us, you say, and you are the boss, so let it be. Would you like to review the stock now, to determine what we’ll be taking with us from here?” the owner, a very olive-skinned guy, tall and slender, in remarkable shape given his forty eight years, informed me.“Sure, in a little bit. First, though, I plan to speak to these four. You guys, what are your names?” I turned to the. ”I was puzzled. “Well if I can, I will. What did you have in mind?”She smiled. “Before I tell you, I need you to know that it’s okay if you say no, and I don’t want to offend you. This stays between us, please?” I nodded.“So this might come as a shock to you, but Mike and I…. have what you could call an open relationship. As in, we swing. Sleep with other people, go to parties with other couples that like to swap partners, that kind of thing. But for a while, we’ve had this fantasy about.