"Former company – and believe me, it doesn't make me feel good to know this is getting spread like a plague," Teddy answers her with a deep frown on his face. "It's all sort of trickled down from the bigwigs who made these deals – all that money with no return, I guess they were feeling the squeeze. In the last two years since I met up with my friends, there have supposedly been two hush-hush deals – one with a company across the pond in Europe, and one here – somewhere in the Southwest. Our neck of the woods."