I sat with the screen glowing in front of me, ashamed of how much information had been within reach.

Rosa knocked softly.

“Mrs.

Vance asked me to give you this,” she said.

It was a photograph of an invoice from Mariana’s design work.

She’d completed a small restaurant renovation in March and had been paid directly into her separate account.

On the reverse she had written:

I wasn’t hiding my earnings from you.