Wife confronts husband over secret school project dinner — Then text messages reveal the daughter never even asked him to hide it
Chapter 4 — The Garage Discovery
Clara stared at the strange address scribbled at the bottom of the notepad.
It was not the local craft store.
It was not a hardware supplier near their suburban neighborhood.
It pointed directly to a specialized commercial center on the opposite side of town.
She folded the paper tightly between her fingers.
Jordan had told her he spent the entire afternoon working on the project right here in the house.
He claimed he never left the property.
Yet his own handwriting detailed a specific destination miles away.
Clara walked out of the dining room and crossed the hallway toward the garage door.
The heavy wooden door creaked as she pushed it open.
Dim morning light filtered through the small upper windows of the garage.
Jordan’s workbench was littered with half-cut poster boards, glue bottles, and spare plastic tubing.
A green plastic bin sat open near the corner.
Clara stepped across the concrete floor and looked down into the bin.
A crumpled paper receipt caught her eye from beneath a bundle of unused electrical wire.
She reached down and pulled the receipt into the light.
It was printed from an automated pay station downtown.
The timestamp on the ticket was dated exactly three days ago.
The time printed at the top was 2:14 PM.
That was the exact hour Jordan claimed he was helping Harper paint the poster board in the living room.
