MY HUSBAND MOVED HIS MOM AND NEPHEW INTO MY HOUSE BEHIND MY BACK. WHEN I OBJECTED, MY MIL CROSSED A SERIOUS LINE: “DON’T LIKE IT? GET OUT!” I SAID, “FINE, JUST WAIT.”

lowered his voice. “Please come home. We can fix this.”

I looked through Maya’s office window at the sunrise.

“No,” I said. “Now we fix it properly.”

By noon, Diane and Kyle stood on the sidewalk beside their luggage, furious and humiliated.

I arrived with Maya.

Diane rushed toward me until a deputy stepped between us.

“You evil little witch,” she hissed. “You planned this.”

“No,” I said. “You planned it. I documented it.”

Eric came down the steps looking exhausted. “Can we talk inside?”

“We can talk here.”

His