“Try being a good sister for once,” Chloe said.

She climbed the rest of the stairs, leaving the heavy basement door standing three inches open.

I didn’t answer her.

I turned the silver ring on my thumb three times until the band pressed hard into my skin.

I went over to my green canvas duffel by the leg of the folding table and took out my rugged military laptop.

I set the matte black computer on the metal table, opened the reinforced lid, and turned it on.