My husband beat me until I lost consciousness, then calmly told everyone at the hospital I had “slipped in the shower.” – usnews

What if he had been reacting to something else?

“Give me your phone,” I said.

“Maya—”

“Please.”

He handed it over.

My hands shook as I opened the browser.

I typed the portal address from memory.

The page loaded.

Halden’s blue-and-silver logo appeared.

Client Login.

I knew every pixel of that page.

I had used it for months.

Liam watched me.

“What are you looking for?”

I didn’t answer.

I deleted one word from the web address.

Then the hyphen.

A different site appeared.

Halden Forensic Advisory.

Same logo.

Almost the same page.

Almost.

The spacing was slightly different.

The legal notice at the bottom used a smaller font.

I felt cold.

“No.”

Liam leaned nearer.

“What?”

“The portal.”

“What about it?”

“I’ve been uploading records to the wrong portal.”

For once, my brother had no response.

I stared at the screen.

Six months of bank statements.

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