“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.

“Not yet,” Dad said.

Gabriel moved forward.

“How did your contact trace that particular unit to the Sutter family?”

“Warren Ellis is the primary contact person on the rental agreement,” Dad said.

The cold creeping fear was back in my chest.

Can we send somebody to check that storage unit out right now?’“ I asked.

“We can’t go in there legally without a search warrant or consent from the owner,” Gabriel said.

“But we can file an emergency order to freeze the unit so nothing can be destroyed inside.”