Chapter 16: The Revenge

About eighteen months later . . .

Jackie, Jodi, and Barbara were counting the receipts and cash from the Saturday night orgy at Garvey’s

“We’ve had a pretty good weekend,” Jackie said. “We’ve made $12,643.90 this week.”

“Of course, we did. We’ve been pulling five figure weeks for the past ten months,” Jodi stated proudly.

Barbara, their twenty-year-old front desk manager, smiled. “Yes, you wouldn’t know that the country is trying to recover from a recession.”

The 2008 crash had hit Garvey’s Hotel and Bar. Jodi and Jackie were two inches away from filing for bankruptcy and closing the hotel and bar their grandparents had started. The whole town had suffered from the crash. Several citizens in the small Arizona town had resorted to doing things they wouldn’t have dreamed of doing before 2008 to make ends meet.

Desperate to save their heritage, Jodi had come up with an idea that was inspired by a freak outbreak of se