For the first time, her calm cracked.
“You’re making a mistake,” she snapped, grabbing the cash and storming off into the night.
She didn’t notice the second envelope that slipped to the ground.
I did.
Inside it were just a few words:
“If you stayed, you understood me. Now look where I always told you to look—Grandpa.”
Confused, I went back inside the house.
To his bedroom mirror.
Behind it, I found a hidden compartment.
A key.