Page 39 of Rules of Engagement

"Shall I get you some more tea?"

I shook my head. "I think I'm going to check Solomon's laptop," I said, sitting down and pulling the bag over to my feet. Taking the laptop out, I flipped open the lid, turning it on. Lily pulled her chair over to the corner of the room and watched me.

"Do you think he watches porn on that?" she whispered, as if Solomon might hear her.

My mouth dropped open. "That's the first thing you thought of?"

She returned my shocked expression with one of her own. "You mean you didn't?"

"No. I thought there might be a top ten list of people who hate him."

"I think porn is more likely. I wonder what he's into."

"Lily!"

"Fine, but you owe me ten bucks if I'm right."

"Don't mentally spend it," I said as the password screen appeared. "There's no fingerprint scanner on this laptop. I need to work out what the password might be."

"You never saw him enter it?"

"No, not that I remember."

"Try 'password'."

I rolled my eyes. "Solomon would never use that!"

"Pets?"

"I don't remember him mentioning any. He's a cyber security specialist. He won’t use anything like that."

"Type 'I love Lexi'."

I glanced up. "Seriously?"

"Sure? Why not? Here, I'll do it," said Lily. She leaned in and tapped the keys. I squealed as she hit return before I could point out we only had ten attempts before the laptop locked us out.

Miraculously, the screen faded away and the desktop loaded. "Unbelievable!" I breathed, absolutely dumbfounded.

"I'm a genius," said Lily, her voice unbearably smug.

"You are a genius," I agreed. Several icons were placed on the desktop screen, which was nowhere nearly as busy as my desktop. "I think these are legal documents. There's a will, a deed to his house, a list of bank accounts. Why are there so many?" I asked, clicking on the document.

"Documents or bank accounts?"

"Bank accounts. Some of them are offshore." I closed it.

"That document says Lexi," said Lily, pointing one of her pink-glittered fingernails at the screen.

I double-clicked and opened it. "It's blank," I said.

"How can it be blank if the word count says there're words?" asked Lily.

I scrolled down, page one making way for page two. "It doesn't make any sense." I scrolled up again and tapped my fingers against my chin, then laughed. "It needs highlighting," I said. I highlighted the whole document and words appeared on the screen. "Solomon sent me a document like this once and it took me an hour to figure it out."

"What does it say?"

"It's another letter." I speed-read it, my curiosity nearly overcoming me. "It's instructions on what to do if anything happens to him. There's information on the lawyers and what comes into play if Solomon dies," I said, choking on the last word before I spat it out. "There's a list of people he absolutely trusts. Both of our names are on it."

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