I Let My Stepdaughter Think She’d Taken Over My House

show me?”

“I’ll show you,” I said.

Chloe spoke up fast. Too fast. “Can we not make this into a whole thing over a stupid piece of paper?”

The officer turned. “A stupid piece of paper with a safe code. Inside a tampered door.”

Ryan took one step back.

Just one.

But I saw that too.

In the garage

The garage smelled like sawdust and old paint.

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