My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

back to crackers because survival at that age is brutally efficient.

Rachel poured coffee. “Your mom called me six times today.”

“What did she want?”

“She wants me to tell the court Derek is a great father and this was all pressure and panic and stress.”

“Is any of that false?”

Rachel stared into her mug. “The father part is complicated. The rest? Pressure continue reading …