That evening Erika stayed with them for supper. Erika was moving in the next day. Melissa told Jake that he was being evicted from the office he never...used so Erika could have it. That was fine with Jake, because he was not one of those guys who could work from home anyway. His intentions were good but he was easily distracted. A kid wanting to play, a female wanting some loving, or a friend wanting to fish was all it took for him to drop everything and play hooky. If he had legitimate work. ." Looking at her parents she saw them looking at her with, whatshe thought was pride, on their faces. For a moment she felt the angerstarting to boil up, she was able to stifle it quickly though. Trying tochange her mood, she looked at Bill and Joan and told them, "I guess yousee now how I stay so thin, I call it the 'Rissa and Ally diet plan..."Everyone laughed, other than the six and four-year-old, they just didn'tget the joke.The rest of the dinner was actually pleasant, the conversation. I needed to get out of the house. I took a shower, got dressed, and headed out. I was going to go somewhere, anywhere.I let whim lead me, which is how I wound up on the west side of town. My wife and I had joined a swingers' club there recently, and my thoughts turned to that. I'd pay more to go by myself, I knew, but I figured, what the hell. If nothing else I'd get to hang out in the eroticism that I was missing.People will tell you there's no way you can look at someone and know they are. I was planning on giving you a quarter of the business, Kennedy. By throwing that money away, you'd have put nearly nine hundred people out of work, instantly! Some of those people have worked for me, loyally and faithfully, for decades! You'd toss them on the garbage heap!"Worse, there would be repercussions. Probably, before the dominoes stopped falling, it would be about two thousand people whose jobs would have evaporated, mostly from other companies, those who do business with us."For.