My daughter-in-law broke into my apartment thirty-six times in three months.
She called it “checking in.” I called it a felony.
When I confronted her, she laughed and told my son I was losing my mind. She thought I was just a confused old man protecting a modest pension check.
She had no idea she was declaring war on a retired forensic accountant who knows exactly how to bury people with paper.
That night, at two in the morning, the silent alarm tripped, and I finally closed the trap.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I walked into apartment 4B at exactly 11:15 in the morning. The door was unlocked.
It was the third time that week.
The hallway smelled of cheap vanilla perfume and aggressive ambition. Megan’s scent.
I did not call out. I did not panic. I simply closed the door behind me with a soft click and listened.
The floorboards in the living room creaked.
A lesser man might have shouted for an explanation, but I spent forty years hunting corporate embezzlement in the United States. You never interrupt a crime in progress until you have gathered all the variables. I moved silently across the worn carpet toward the bedroom. The door was ajar.
Through the crack, I saw her.
Megan was bent over my nightstand. Her fingers rifled through the drawer with a frantic entitlement that made my blood run cold.
She pulled out my heart medication and shook the bottle next to her ear like a maraca, testing the weight, gauging how many pills were left. She tossed it back in with a careless thud.
She was looking for something specific. She was looking for calm—or perhaps a will she hoped would reveal a fortune I pretended not to have.
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