I wasn’t experienced enough to spot the warning signs. Mom would have noticed in time to make a new plan. I didn’t pick it up until this morning. ...oday was our last chance. We have $700,000 in debt payments due next week and about $125,000 in cash reserves. We needed the deal to go through today in order to retire the debt and have some funds to switch over to a gaming site and a software development firm. I don’t have enough liquid assets to cover the shortfall. I checked and it’s just not. He shot Reid and is fleeing by airplanewith the girl. We have Miami Dade PD en route to meet his plane." Roger Dispatch, tell Fox Two to stand by, ETA ten minutes. What'sReid's condition?" Stable. Took a gunshot to the upper thigh. He's been locked up withLiz for about four days and an infection has set in. He's beingairlifted to St. Luke's for treatment." What about Mrs. Owen?" She is being transported as well for injuries, and malnourishment."Harris beeped his horn at the car in front of. For a moment I thought that she had hit a vital spot, or had packed silver bullets or something, but then his body morphed, writhed, and stretched toward her impossibly fast. His hands were suddenly about her neck. She grit her teeth and kept firing point blank until the demon twisted her head fully around with a sickening crack.“NOOO!” I screamed as Shepherd’s body fell to the cold, hard ground.Eros skirted around the fire, brushing his hands together. “And with you dead, too, my sister will. We were both gob smacked by these presents and thanked them profusely.Joe asked us how we had liked being left on our own for the weekend. I grinned and told him that we had managed fine but that I had discovered that I had a girlfriend who was coming out of her shell and turning into a right bossy boots."That will be her mother's genes taking the ascendency," Joe warned me. "So I can imagine what it was like. If that is true I don't see anything changing in the future." I was not a bossy.