After returning home from a 9-month deployment, I found all my belongings stuffed into trash bags inside my own house

“We needed to make some adjustments while you were gone.”

Adjustments.

That word carried a lot of weight in this house.

I looked past them into the living room. The furniture had been rearranged. New throw pillows. A framed photo I didn’t recognize.None of it was mine.

“Where’s Chloe?” I said.