“Come get your worthless daughter and take her back,” my mother-in-law shouted my father as I lay broken at the bottom of the stairs after my husband shoved me down. “Your family will answer for it if she has even a scratch,” was the sole warning Dad offered her. They had no notion who my father really was, so they made fun of him.

“Because Eleanor said she’d tell the federal investigators I was the mastermind behind the whole signature forgery if I didn’t give her my private backup files,” Laura cried.

Gabriel’s eyes narrowed menacingly.

“What backup files?”

Laura admitted, “The digital photo copies of the physical blue ledger.

Dad took a step forward with incredible intensity.

Where is the physical blue ledger now, Laura?

Laura looked me straight in the eye.

“Your father’s been looking in the wrong places, Rachel,” Laura said softly.