She knew which side of the house was less visible from the street. She knew precisely where to stand while painting.
This wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment prank.
It was planned.
I enlarged the footage and noticed something else: on the second night, Kelsie had looked toward the front windows before she began painting.
She was checking whether anyone was awake.
The realization made my skin crawl.
That evening, I sat with Toby at the kitchen table and tried to remember whether anything had changed between us and Kelsie.
We discussed the
