While I was on vacation with my cousins, my phone lit up with one message: “Get on a plane home. Don’t tell your parents you’re coming.” When I landed, an attorney and two investigators

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“I go home,” I said. “Like nothing happened.”

“No,” Daniel said immediately.

“Yes,” I said. “I know that house. I know where my dad keeps documents. I know my mother’s tells when she lies. And they don’t know I know anything.”

Margaret’s jaw tightened. “That is risky.”

“My whole life was risky. I just didn’t know it.”

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