You did all of this yourself.

I only documented you.”

Dean Harrow read on, into the ringing quiet.

“Recovered communications indicate a coordinated effort by Stephanie Vance, Luca Reed, and at least one additional participant to falsify academic evidence and to breach a protected university server.”

And my father, who had risen to stop me, sank slowly back down into his seat, and did not get up again.

I looked out over all of them, my whole family exposed in the space of ninety seconds, and I understood something clearly for the first time.