Don’t worry, Honey, I’ll treat them, as if they are my own blood. Who wants fruitcake? And we have homemade marmalade, too.’ Instead of hating t...em, being jealous of them, and wishing them ill will or wishing them a horribly painful death from cancer that rots their bodies from the inside out, sorry, I got carried away, imagine if there really was a Santa Claus and bankers, insurance executives, CEO’s of car companies, and brokers from Wall Street investment firms didn’t get a bonus because. “This way,” Mike said, and pulled me back towards the hotel. We walked in silence for most of it. Occasionally he’d stop us and we’d kiss. Sweet kisses. Kisses totally at odds with the brutal fuck session we’d just experienced. Finally, he stopped us within a block of my hotel and took me back in his arms. “I can’t go up there with you. I’m so sorry. I hate that I can’t at least walk you to your room. Or stay with you until morning.”I pulled back and looked up at him. “Don’t sweetie. I don’t. ’ After saying goodnight Jack snapped the phone shut, but opened it again almost immediately and dialed Ally’s cell phone. ‘Don’t look now but there’s a cool glass of water looking this way, and he ain’t looking at me. Behind your right shoulder.’ Nicki turned to look over her shoulder as Ally hissed, ‘I said don’t look!’ ‘Remember I told you about my on-again-off-again guy-person?’ ‘That’s Adam? But—he doesn’t look like a loser.’ ‘No, that’s not Adam. That’s Adam’s friend Matt.’ ‘Matt as in. When our two patients and everyone else were finally settled, I tried to decide where to sleep and was informed that my room was waiting for me. They didn’t tell me that I had company. Beverly, Carol, and Diane were almost hidden under the covers. Stacey, Pam, and Vickie slept on a second bed in the same room. Seeing how exhausted I looked, Vickie let me off the hook and took a rain check on the second fuck I owed her after losing the bet this morning.Nea regained consciousness shortly before.