I Bought a Used Washing Machine and Found a Diamond Ring Inside—Returning It Brought Ten Police Cars to My Door

“You were scared,” Nora said.

“Yeah,” I admitted.

“But you weren’t in trouble,” she said. “Because you did the right thing.”

“Looks like it.”

Milo tugged my sleeve. “Can we have pancakes? Since we’re not going to jail?”

“Absolutely.”

Later, I taped Claire’s note to the fridge—right where the ring had sat the night before.