She had come over to find out whether we knew.
Her nervousness at the door hadn’t been discomfort about confronting a neighbor.
She had been testing us.
When I told her we had been away that weekend, she realized we had no idea anyone had been using our yard.
Her complaint had been a cover.
She had been checking whether they had been caught.
Tom shut the laptop.
“We need to decide what we’re going to do.”
I nodded.
Because this had clearly been happening for far longer than one evening.
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We considered confronting Jim and Lisa immediately.
We had video evidence.
We could walk next door, show it to them, and demand an explanation.
But I knew exactly what would happen.
They would apologize.
They would say they thought we wouldn’t mind.
They would claim it started innocently.
