After Anissa dropped the bombshell that the antique store owner might have been her mother, they discussed endless possibilities without coming to any decent conclusions except that they'd be trying to contact the shop as soon as the holidays were over.
Eric popped out for two minutes at about ten-thirty to tell them things were still moving along. He looked like hell, but Dave noticed he could hardly wait to get back inside. Dave wasn't sure whether he pitied the man or envied the hell out of him. Maybe both.
That had been close to an hour earlier. Wes conned some orderly out of a deck of cards and they decided to teach Anissa the finer points of euchre. She might not have the education of the others at the table but she was wickedly smart and had just finished taking all five tricks w
