Into the Future: A Callahan Novel by Celya Bowers Page B

says that the only room worth checking is your son’s room.  Analysis found your ex-husband fingerprints on the backdoor, your bedroom door, and the attic.  Most were in your son’s room.”
    “Yes, that’s where his body was found. Can I check his room?”
    “Sure, you can.”
    They walked into the room of doom and Lizzy went straight to the video player.  She ejected the disc and inspected it, but didn’t see any flaws.  She wanted to play it but decided against it.  If there was something on it, Sean would take it. But could she really bring trouble into Tristan’s house after he was nice enough to let her family stay with him? 
    “Sean, PJ had said the disc had some kind of writing on it.”
    Sean reached for the remote to the video game and turned it on.  The company logo came up on the screen.  Then a spreadsheet appeared on the screen.  “Hey, what’s that?” Lizzy asked.
    “Looks like your ex was keeping a second set of books.”  He quickly went through the data on the disc.  “Wow!  This account has about ten million in it.  Do you know where this account is?”
    “No.  I didn’t know a thing about this.”
    “Oh, no, I’m not accusing you.  I’m just wondering if he had a particular bank he used.  Don’t worry if you don’t know.  I can run it through our programs and find it.”
    “I thought that kind of information was confidential,” Lizzy half-asked. 
    “With the government, nothing is confidential.”  He pulled his cell phone from his waist and dialed a number.  “Callahan here. I need to trace an account.” He rattled off Paul’s name, last known address and social security number.   He ended the call and place the phone back in his holder.  “Should have the information in a few minutes.”
    “Wow, Sean!  I’m so impressed,” Lizzy said.  “So do you know what he was doing that would have gotten him killed?”
    “Classic falling out among thieves, I’d guess.  Once I get a look at the account, I’ll know for sure.  Most likely he was the fall guy.  You know the one who opened the account, and would probably go to jail for this.  The company was being investigated and money is missing.  Not ten mil, but enough for them to fire him months ago.”
    “I feel like such a fool.  Here I was giving him all sorts of chances with the kids and he was doing all this.”
    “Now Lizzy, don’t you worry about this.  This is a lot deeper than you.”  His phone rang. Sean hurriedly answered the phone.  “Talk to me.” 
    Lizzy watched him as he nodded, pulling a pad out of his jacket pocket along with a gold pen. “Okay, give me that again.”  He scribbled numbers and names on a small pad.  “Suspend the account and route any inquiries to the net.”
    Lizzy watched him put his phone back in its holder.  “Okay, I got some information about the accounts.  Some of it I can tell you, some I can’t because it’s now part of an ongoing investigation.”
    “Okay, what can you tell me?”
    “Paul wasn’t the only person on the account.  There was two other people.  My guess is that the disc is the key.  Apparently, he was killed before he could hand it over.”
    “But why was this a government hit?”
    “Oh, you know about that?”
    “I’m a mom. I pay attention.  Two shots to the head.”
    Sean sighed.  “You’re worse than my wife. You know curiosity killed the cat. The hit is still a puzzler, and there’s still some dots that needed to be connected.  Do you know any of his friends?”
    “Not since the divorce was final.  You may check with his mother. Some G-men were watching her house for several weeks.  They stopped the day Paul was killed.”
    The cartwheels in Sean’s brain were working overtime.  “Would this be Beatrice Hall?”
    “Yes.”
    He ushered her out of the room. “My guess is whoever interrupted him before he could retrieve the disc, killed him. Since this is a child’s room, no one thought to check the