“What’s your hurry?” Joyce said, carefully descending the steep stairs. “I’m just so excited to get started on the process to buy the house, that I’d like to go as soon as possible,” Heather finagled. With a parting glance backward at the stairway leading to the third floor, she descended the staircase to the first floor. Her heart began to beat normally the farther she was from the third floor stairway, and her attention once again turned to how the building could service her customers. The main floor could hold up to 200 people. The large dust covered dining room could seat 20; the huge dining set was a nice surprise left by the former owners. The high back chairs would need to be recovered, but the ornamental carved teak wood was irreplaceable. It was worth the month it would take to

