
Her eyes narrowed.
“You did this.”
“I was asleep.”
“That’s exactly what you’d say.”
I looked more closely at the driveway.
There were paint trays near the tires.
Two rollers were lying on the pavement.
A half-empty bucket sat next to the passenger side.
Something about that bothered me.
Whoever had painted my car had cleaned up everything afterward.
No buckets.
No rollers.
No evidence.
Then I remembered something.
My cameras.
“Wait.”
Denise crossed her arms.
“What?”
“I installed security cameras after my car was painted.”
Something flickered across her face.
Only for a second.
But I noticed it.
I turned around and went inside.
She followed me without being invited.
“Pull up the footage.”
“I’m trying.”
I opened the security app and started scrolling backward through the night.
Until then, the most exciting things my cameras had recorded were delivery drivers, squirrels, and a neighborhood cat that liked wandering onto my porch.
Then I reached 2:14 a.m.
Motion appeared near the edge of the screen.
A pickup truck slowly came into view.
I paused.
Denise leaned closer.
“Who is that?”
“I don’t know.”
The truck stopped in front of her house.
A man got out.
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