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my
insurance pays for all the damage I wreaked. And for a new car. Again!”
    “Aw,
come here,” Makenna said, gathering her sister into a warm embrace. “It’s going
to be okay. One way or another, it’s going to work out.”
    “Will
it? I’m beginning to have my doubts. Even for me, these past two and a half
months have been crazy.”
    “I
know you don’t do well with changes,” Makenna commiserated. “And there have
been quite a few these past few weeks, haven’t there?”
    “Oh,
you might say that. Three months ago, my life was nice and stable: my career
was going great at the magazine, I had a good social life, I thought my past
was finally behind me, I was driving my old and faithful Myrtle, and I thought
I was finally going to visit New England. Life was good.”
    “And
then you had your wreck.”
    “It’s
funny, how one little thing can cause a chain reaction, setting off a whole
series of events. I conned you into pretending to be me for my dream assignment.
And sometime in between being chased off the road and nearly being kidnapped,
you figured out that you and I weren’t merely friends and roommates, we were
actually sisters.” Kenzie shook her head in exasperation. “How we missed such
an obvious thing, I will never know.”
    “How
could we have known? My parents adopted an abandoned three year old. Your
parents let you think you were an only child. We may look a lot alike, sound a
lot alike, but we had no reason to suspect we were related.”
    “Yeah,
well, finding out I had a sister was the only positive thing to come out of all
of this mess. I could have definitely done without finding out my father was a
criminal. Sure, I always suspected it, since we moved around all the time and
changed our names as often as most people change batteries in the TV remote.
But thinking it and knowing it are two different things. I still can’t believe
that a genius like my father was stupid enough to get involved with crooked politicians
and the Zaffino Mafia. He was the one to set up this entire thing, after all,
creating all those dummy corporations to collect grants and credits from the
government, taking advantage of the move toward green energy.”
    “Depending
on how you look at it, he was either smart enough/stupid enough to document his
dirty deeds and everyone involved.”
    “This
is so like him,” Kenzie complained. “He creates a big mess and just walks away
from it, leaving me to deal with it. Now that NorthWind is getting so much
attention, the worms are beginning to crawl out of the woodwork. Everyone’s
afraid that their involvement in the scam will be exposed. And for some reason
they think they can get to my father and his evidence through me. Little do
they know what a dysfunctional family I come from! I have no way to get in touch
with my father, no idea where he is or what name he’s using these days. A lot
of good it would do to kidnap me.”
    “Especially
since you’ve had the evidence all along, you just didn’t realize it.”
    “Sometimes
I wish I’d never opened that envelope my mother gave me. I mean, I had had the
thing for eight years and forgotten all about it. What made me find it and look
at it after all this time? I still don’t know everything she meant in that
letter. I think there’s still something missing, still some other big change
just waiting to happen.” Kenzie grunted. “And just wait until we go public with
the evidence we found. These are Congressmen and judges and billionaires we’re
talking about that were part of the scam. We’re about to rock the entire
political foundation of this country. Who knows what kind of changes will
happen then?”
    “Some
of the changes have been good,” Makenna reminded her. “Your career is stronger
than ever. After the NorthWind piece-”
    “Which
technically you shot. I just edited it.”
    “-
you caught the attention of Senator Lawrence. Having a U.S. Senator
specifically request you for his special