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“I’M SORRY, MOM. I’ve gone over these figures again and again. They just don’t come out any other way. The plant is in major trouble.” Amanda Baron dropped the sheaf of computer paper she’d been holding onto Alyssa’s desk. She shut the cover of a large black ledger with a snap. “I know how much you hate to hear this, but I think you’re going to have to entertain one or the other of the two offers you’ve received to sell out.”

Alyssa turned away from the window where she’d been standing, staring out at the chilly, rain-swept November day. The weather exactly matched her mood. “I know,” she said wearily. “I just wanted to hear you confirm it.”

“I’ve finished going over the offer from DEVCHECK,” Amanda went on, swiveling slightly in her grandfather’s big old chair. Her voice and the creak of the chair’s springs were the only other sounds, as it was Saturday and the assembly lines weren’t running. Amanda and Alyssa had come to the plant to talk without being overheard by Judson.

“And?”

“They aren’t doing us any favors, either,” she admitted, twirling a pencil between slender fingers. “But it’s by far the more attractive of the two offers.”

“That’s what I was afraid you’d say.” Alyssa turned back to the dreary scene beyond the window. “Is there any way we could recapitalize on our own?” She was clutching at straws and they both knew it.