Katherine looked at the screen in front of her dazed at what she saw. She couldn’t stay with him now knowing this truth.

She couldn’t report it to the authorities either. It will be the end of her career, her life, and her marriage. Who was she kidding? Her marriage was over anyways. There was no way in hell she could stay with him now knowing what she knew. But she couldn’t turn him in. It would haunt her forever. Her kids needed him. They worshipped him.

She doesn’t even think she could ever work in law enforcement again if he was convicted.

So she deleted everything. Scrubbed his hard drive using skills she learned from her job as a forensic computer engineer; skills she acquired in her ten plus years working in the Chicago Police Department.

She knew what happened to men like her husband in prison. She also knew what happened to families after someone was accused of such a crime.

She was glad she had the house to herself for a few more days. Nate was at a job conference in Albuquerque for the weekend. She would spend a day coming up with a plan.

That was two days ago.

The inside of her car is loaded to the brim with things she feels she cannot live without. Her gun safe; the box of fishing gear her father got her for her 21st birthday; camping gear she loves; and suitcases filled with clothes.

As far as the children know, they are going on an impromptu trip to visit their grandparents in New York. Eventually she will have to come up with a believable excuse to explain why they can’t go back home.

After their arrival and she feels safe again in her childhood home, she will tell her father everything.

He always has the best advice. After all, he is the director of the FBI.