My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It

No spare house key.

I checked again.

Nothing.

PART 6 — THE MISSING KEY

Mark sat at the kitchen table drafting a stair detail when I told him.

“Eleanor took the spare key.”

He kept drawing.

“How do you know?”

“It was in my purse.”

“You might have moved it.”