Breathing a sigh of relief, Peter decided to let them stay one more day. He even brought them sandwiches and hot coffee, hoping to make their difficult situation a little more comfortable.
But while leaving for work, his neighbor Mrs. Henderson rushed over to the fence, her face pale and her voice lowered to an urgent, frantic whisper.
She warned him of a terrifying local scam—a woman using innocent children to gain a homeowner’s trust, only to quietly unlock doors for dangerous criminals after midnight.
Peter tried to politely brush off her paranoid words, but as he drove to the office, a dark seed of doubt firmly took root in his mind.
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