Leave now, or I am pressing charges.” It was a real warning, and also, though they could not know it, an invitation, because every second they stayed, every word they spoke, every threat they made inside the home they had broken into, was being recorded by a camera they did not know existed.

I needed them to stay.

I needed them to do exactly what they had come to do.

Chapter 11 — The Crowbar

“Go ahead!” Julian sneered, stepping closer, his jaw clenched.

“Call the police!

Tell them your ex-husband came to collect his family’s property!

I know what you’ve been doing these past few months, Evelyn.