why... what she is?" "And what you are as well. You are her protector. You have been helping her, protecting her, haven't you?" For some strange reason he thought back to his singing at the university, how Angelique had told him what it had done for her. And now, he couldn't really remember why he had been so compelled to go into that rehearsal room and sing those three nights. He had never done it any other time. "And you have been rewarded, Wyatt, no?" Instantly he thought about Cory, his anguish at the child's impending death until he'd brought Angelique and she'd saved him. And George hitting it big in Vegas. And him getting a billion dollar port deal he'd thought was lost. "But you nuns protected her too. For two years." "And now, in our hour of need, five million dollars shows up at our doorstep." "Tell me," he said.
