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With a quiet knock on his office door, Hana Arif reentered David’s life as
swiftly as she had left it.
She paused on the threshold. Beneath the flowing dress she was still
slim, her carriage straight and proud, the sense of kinetic energy at rest still
present. Her eyes remained brown pools, but somehow older, their fires
banked. Her face had aged but subtly—her skin was perhaps closer to the
bone, and when she smiled at him, the first hint of lines appeared at the
corners of her eyes. To David, she had the beauty that only time can bring,
reminding him that this had happened outside of his awareness, and that he
knew nothing about who she had become.
“So,” she said wryly. “Now you are my lawyer.”
Standing, David managed a smile of his own. “You’re free to hope.”
“I said that once, didn’t I.” She came to him quickly, standing on tiptoe
to give him a chaste kiss on the cheek, leaving a small tingle of electricity on
David’s skin. “You look wonderful, David—even better than on television.
Time has been good to you.”
David smiled again. “I exercise,” he said lightly.
Hana gazed at him, silent, then scanned his office as if searching for
something to do. Walking to his bookshelf, she studied a framed photograph.
“This is Carole?”
“Yes.”
Head tilted, Hana appraised her picture. “A good face, I think—warm.
But smart-looking. More than a nice Jewish girl.”
“Nice Jewish girls,” David answered, “were never my obsession.”
“No. As I remember, you had no ethnic requirements.”
There was irony in her tone and, perhaps, the hint of an apology. When
she turned to him, plainly disconcerted, David motioned her to the couch.
“Tell me about your visit from the FBI.”
She sat a few feet from him, ankles crossed, regarding him with quiet
gravity. “Before we start,” she said, “I am very grateful to you for seeing me.
And it is very good to see you, David. There isn’t a day I haven’t thought of
you.” Amending this with a smile, she added more lightly, “Or, at least, a
week. My life has been rich with incident.”
David did not return her smile. “So it seems. How does Saeb feel about
you coming here?”
Hana straightened her skirt, her expression pensive. “Ambivalent, at
best. But not so ambivalent about the vagaries of the American legal process
in the wake of Ben-Aron’s assassination.” Hana angled her head, making eye
contact again. “We both watched you on television, and it’s clear you know
the system very well. And it’s not as though we have a list of local lawyers
passionate to help us.”
“I imagine not. Given Saeb’s political leanings, I’m surprised our
government let him come here.”
Hana shrugged. “Saeb has no record of violence—merely violent
opinions. It is not like admitting a friend of Osama Bin Laden.” Briefly Hana
looked away. “We are not terrorists, David. Nor are we wealthy. We have
little money for lawyers.”
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