"I'll bet this is what you most wanted to see, wasn't it?" Chris was frozen in total shock as, outwardly casual, she sat in his lap. "Or was it really...Kristen? Donna?" Getting absolutely no response from him, and still amazed at her own actions, she pulled his head to her chest. "These aren't as big and beautiful as the ones you got to snuggle in last night, but a long time ago you used to like them pretty well." Suddenly concerned how Jenny might react to her little show, she looked over and. . he would just let everything loose.As I was pondering over this, someone tapped my shoulder and said,"Er... Deepika?" I turned around to see a boy and girl, more or lessmy age, the girl seemingly the boy's younger sister, smiling. After asecond or two I remembered the girl as Shalini, the daughter of one ofmy father's close business associates. We had hardly met justonce. But where had I seen that boy before? "I'm Vikram," he said,almost as if in response to my thoughts, "Remember me? I was. If they had been my employees a trial would have been a blessing that they would not get before being shot.Then there were their legal problems. They had lost several lengthy court cases that had cost them millions. Record keeping had gotten sloppy; so bad that Congress was demanding investigation and agencies were balking over invoices and payments. They were on the IRS prosecution list in the worst way for late filings, nonpayment and violations.Then came the assets discussion, reveal and. I'm alive. You're alive. She's alive. We've left too many dead behind already, Jordan. I wasn't going to add to it."He was silent for a time."I think... I think I knew that. Even as it happened. I think I knew that you were doing the only thing you could do. And... You saved her. You saved Temaile. Even if... Almost at the expense of your own life." You make me feel stupid," she mumbled. "My own enemy, and I take wounds to save her. Some person I am. I'm almost as stupid as she is." You.