They had panicked, because I had found their crime, and they were, on their own camera, in their own voices, reacting not as enraged parents but as exposed criminals scrambling to contain a threat.

Chapter 14 — If She Talks, We Lose Everything

The second file had been recorded inside the moving SUV.

I was slumped in the back, barely conscious; my father was driving.

And his voice, trembling, says to my mother: “She found the audit ledgers for the trust.” My mother, from the passenger seat: “All of them?” “I don’t know!” “Well, you’d better figure it out.

If she talks to the rest of the family, we lose everything.”