"What's your name, kid?" Ron asked."Uh," I cleared my throat and finally managed to croak, "Tommy, uh Tom!" Trying to sound as old as possible."Nice t... meet you Tommy!" Carol said, and Ron followed up with, "Yeah, Tom! Hey, thanks for lettin' us look at your stuff, here!"I sat scrunched between them as they leafed through the tattered books and magazines, trying to make myself as small as possible, and especially trying not to make contact with any part of Carol's anatomy.My embarrassment was. What else you got?”“Not me, you. Talk to me about the lawsuit. Those fuckers sent muscle down here to try and scare me. One of them said they had been hired to convince me to drop the suit. I want answers.”“They are throwing motion after motion, but so are we. I think it will take time to actually get them to court, but as best we can tell, they will be bankrupt long before you even feel the pinch, so I am doing what you asked.” Terry supplied. He showed me the list of court motions that Global. .. Keep them from hurting you." Maureen's voice broke. "I'm so sorry, baby; you got caught up in this, and we couldn't do anything, couldn't offer them anything. I couldn't protect you as I should."Deirdre shook her head. "Mom, they started right away. They started to hurt me and all the other stuff. Nothing mattered. They were crazy, completely crazy." They must have overdosed on those steroids for years, Deirdre. There are side effects of that, such as extreme aggression. It's called 'roid. I have no idea what Glenn Aho was thinking when he pushed so hard for hiring him." Lindeman didn't give me much information on all that," Mike shrugged. "Well, there were a lot of things that he didn't handle very well and that was one of them. I heard elsewhere that Glenn pushed pretty hard, though." That he did," Anissa agreed. "I mean, I thought Glenn was smarter than that, but I guess not." From what I hear he pulled every string he could to get board votes enough to hire him, and I guess.