I caught my daughter-in-law on my security camera secretly planning to move her parents into my house while I was vacationing in Hawaii. “Once everything’s moved in, she won’t make a fuss. She’s old— she’ll just accept it,” my daughter-in-law laughed to her mother. They thought I was too weak to fight back. But they didn’t know I’d seen everything… and I was already on my way home.

Motion detected. Front hallway.   I thought it was my catsitter. Maybe a package delivery. I opened the camera feed casually, barely glancing at the screen until I saw three people standing in my foyer. Not strangers. My daughter-in-law, Rachel. Her mother. Her father. Not one of them lived there. Not one of them had…