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source and destination.”
    “Now you’re saying you’re accountants.”
    “Accountants and attorneys do go after that money. One of their weapons is financial ruin through seizures and endless litigation. The search itself can be dangerous work. There are people, high up, who will readily commit murder to avoid exposure and the loss of position. That leads, now and then, to the need for stronger action beyond what accountants and attorneys are trained for. Now and then, there’s a case of an eye for eye, but…no, not a death squad. That was not the idea.”
    “It was not? Past tense?”
    He rubbed his chin. “These…things sometimes get out of hand.”
    He could hear his father saying, “ No, Adam. Not sometimes. It almost never fails. Any anti-drug unit that’s run off the books becomes corrupt sooner or later. Any punitive unit that gets into killing tends to solve all its problems by killing .”
    Whistler chewed his lip. He waved off the subject. He said, “As for Claudia, let’s give her time. She’ll realize that her white light was only a dream. She’ll be glad I left quietly. You’ll see.”
    A sad little smile. A shake of the head. “Did you talk to her doctor about the white light?”
    “He never mentioned that part of it.”
    “He’s had other patients who’ve had near-death experiences. Not a one could be convinced that what they went through wasn’t real. He thinks this might not go away.”
    “All the same...”
    “She’s so very young, Adam. She’s only twenty-four.”
    “Agreed. I’m too old for her. I know that.”
    “That’s not what I meant. A little older is okay. But you’re older in a different way, aren’t you.”
    He said nothing.
    “And your father…he’s full of surprises himself. A criminal? A renegade? He taught you how to kill?”
    “Not a word of that is true, Mrs. Geller.”
    “Not a word? Or not exactly? Look me in the eye.”
    “Mrs. Geller, my father is the best man I know. If you liked him, you should try to trust your instincts.”
    She nodded. “Fair enough. I’ll wait and hear it from him. In the meantime, Adam, you speak for yourself. I want to hear your side of the story.”
    “It’s not much of a story. One thing leading to another.”
    She folded her arms. “I think you owe me that much. I think the both of you do.”
    “Mrs. Geller...”
    “Try not to get her shot again, Adam. Okay?”
    “Mrs. Geller...you’re not listening. It’s over between us.”
    She was still pacing. She gritted her teeth. “I want to despise you. But I can’t and I don’t. I wish Claudia did, but she doesn’t.”
    Again, he was silent. He looked at his shoes.
    “On the contrary, Adam, she thinks she’s supposed to love you. Do you want to know something? She was almost there already. I think she could have handled the truth.”
    Still nothing.
    “She’s very special, Adam. She was special before this. And you…no matter what you think of yourself…have a decency about you that keeps showing through. Maybe she can really save you. You think?”
    “I have to go.”
    “Adam…I can’t tell you how I hate saying this. Do you know what I’d tell you if I weren’t her mother?”
    Whistler let out a sigh. He waited.
    “I’d tell you pretty much what she asked me say. That you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”

FIVE
    He did leave that day, intending never to return. He tried to put Claudia out of his mind. For what he meant to do, there was every chance that he might not live to see her again anyway.
    But Whistler couldn’t make her face go away. The way she looked up at him. Those wonderful eyes. Explaining with total and absolute certainty that she was his guardian angel.
    And then her mother. Another surprise. Her mother should have said, “Get out of here, Adam. Come near her again and I’ll clobber you. She isn’t an angel; she’s not going save you. She’s not even going to save you from me, so get lost while you still have the