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I worked.
The refrigerator was empty. My wife’s hands were trembling. And upstairs, my daughter was livestreaming her new designer bag, bought with the money meant for food. “Dad won’t do anything,” Mia whispered to her boyfriend.
At dawn, I called our attorney.
By noon, I had bank records.
By evening, I had camera footage from the doorbell, kitchen, garage, and hallway cloud storage—storage Mia never knew existed because I had installed the system through my security company five years earlier.
That was the first thing she didn’t know.
The second was worse.
