Chapter 22In the morning, Ray banged on the door like an incarcerated maniac wanting freedom.
“I'm coming,” Penny yelled. She swung the door open and looked at his three-piece suit. “Hope you don't mind, but I didn't dress up.” Wearing jeans, an old tee shirt and tennis shoes, she was ready to paint. Telling Ray to leave because Lani and John were missing could ruin everything. It boiled down to keeping her stylish apartment and her job until she mustered up the courage to collect Dan's generous gift. They'd probably laugh her out of the bank. Until then, she had nothing, and she didn't want to get her hopes up, in case the inheritance turned out to be a complete fraud.
It wasn't the first time in her life that Lani went missing. At age eleven, she hid herself in a cabinet at a furniture
