”“I guess.”“Thanks Mom,” he grinned and rushed out the door. The woman watched, puzzled, Rory enter the back seat of a Toyota sedan. Some od... looking young man sat in the passenger seat. The remarkably beautiful young woman got into the driver’s seat. Shaking her head, she closed the door.“No curfew?” Karissa asked.“I don’t think Mom even thought of it,” Rory laughed. “You found your brother.”“This is Karis.” Karissa introduced them.“So you know about us?” Karis asked.“Karen told me.”“It’s. We all had high hopesfor her, but during a practice session, Janet had moved too close toJason, and her foot was out of position. When he landed, he hit herleft leg, and sprawled out across the floor, sliding close to therailing. Janet however was sent tumbling. Arms and legs all out ofbalance, she could not recover, and came down hard on her right leg,snapping the bone like a twig.We all heard the bone snap, and rushed over to her. She was crying andin serious pain, but the paramedics came and. I promised my help rebuilding her and that I'd somehow pay whatever it cost."They tell me I was lucky whoever did it didn't have tools or more time or it could have been worse. They could have hitched chains to her and used a car to tear her apart. With bolt cutters they could have simply cut the chain and stolen her and had her cut up and melted down as scrap before I had a chance to find her."Just the thought of that made my voice break.Mrs. Devers shook her head. "They left her on purpose.. ..Loraine... Yes, Firefly is a very small investment for BHI, but it isone that we want to maintain and, to be very honest, yours is one of thefew woman-owned companies in our portfolios and, as such, is worth a bitmore in public relations than you might think. Now, regarding Mr Harris- Shane has been warned about this kind of behavior before. I apologizethat you had to deal with his nonsense, but I promise, he will no longerbe representing BHI." I do appreciate that, Ms Cramer, but I would.