My Halloween Decorations Were Destroyed Overnight — and I Knew Exactly Who Was Behind It

“Jake, what? You’re scaring me.”

He turned his phone toward me. “One of my mom’s friends just forwarded this to me. She thought I should know.”

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I took the phone and pressed play on a video message. The audio was muffled at first, but then I heard a voice that made my stomach flip.

It was her. Margaret, my mother-in-law.

“Let’s see how she decorates next year,” Margaret’s voice said with a quiet laugh. “Maybe now she’ll stop trying to outshine everyone with all that tacky nonsense.”

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