But this felt different.
I bent down and lifted the bed skirt.
There was nothing there—just the hardwood floor.
I forced a smile so Noah wouldn’t feel worried.
“Okay, buddy. Thank you for telling me.”
“Did I do something bad?” he asked.
“No,” I said softly. “You did something very good.”
After he fell asleep, I took one simple step.
I installed a small motion camera under the bed.
The next morning I told Eric I was leaving for a business trip.
But I didn’t actually go anywhere.
That night, sitting in a hotel room twenty minutes away, I opened the camera feed on my phone.
At 11:37 p.m., the recording showed movement.
But Melissa didn’t crawl out from under the bed.
She came out from a hidden crawlspace panel in the closet floor.
And she wasn’t alone.
Another man climbed out behind her carrying a large metal container.
The two of them whispered while walking toward the kitchen, completely unaware that the small camera was capturing everything.
“Did Eric leave yet?” the man asked.
“Yes,” Melissa replied. “He won’t be back until tomorrow morning.”
“So the lab stays here overnight again?”
“Just one more week,” she said. “Then we move everything.”
The word “lab” caught my attention immediately.
My mind started racing.
The man opened the metal container on the kitchen counter.
Inside were glass tubes, sealed bags filled with white powder, and several small burners
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