At 3 A.M., My Brother Dragged Me Out of My Bedroom While Dad Laughed—He Had No Idea What the Smoke Detector Had Recorded

She paused the image.

“Was Douglas present?”

Aaron looked down.

He no longer repeated that I’d imagined the search.

But he still avoided explaining why it happened.

Douglas gave his own account.

He said the family had been dealing with missing money.

He insisted Aaron was trying to prevent another argument.