I had not called anyone regarding the house or the property lines.

Apparently, someone else had made that call in the middle of the night.

When I quickly opened my home security application on my phone, I saw two distinct police cruisers parked directly outside my front door.
PART 2

I stared at the live security feed on my phone screen until the small loading wheel in the upper corner finally stopped spinning.

Two marked police cars sat silently at the curb beneath the massive shade trees that my aunt Madeline had planted almost thirty years ago.