Mark cooed at Tiffany, not even noticing I
was standing there. Tears welled in my eyes,
the combination of sadness and rage almost
blinding me.
My own daughter was lying in the hospital
with a fever, and Mark was flirting with his
assistant! He didn’t give a damn about Lily.
Also, he was happy to spend money on
Tiffany while his own wife didn’t even have a
$30 necklace.
く
Mark and I were college sweethearts. After
graduation, he wanted to start his own
business, and I gave him $20,000 from my
savings. I lived as frugally as possible when
we started the company.
Now his business was doing well, but I still
didn’t buy nice clothes or go out for dinner.
I’d been cutting corners because times were
tough. I’d literally been haggling over the price
of vegetables.
And this whole time, he didn’t care, instead,
he was out flirting with another woman.
I wiped my tears, clenching the lottery ticket.
Yeah, I won a million bucks, and I was going
to tell Mark tonight when we celebrated
Christmas. I was also going to tell him I quit
my job and would be staying home with Lily.
<
But… no need. That money didn’t need to be
shared with Mark. After seven years, it was
time to let him go.
After a restless night, Lily was discharged the
next day. Back home, I made a bottle for her
and rocked her to sleep. My exhaustion finally
kicked in, and I crashed on the couch.
I woke up around lunchtime, ready to make
food, when I remembered what the doctor
had said. I needed to check my home security
cameras.
Was Lily’s poisoning an accident? Or was it
something else?
My whole body shook at the thought. The only
people in our house were me and Mark. Could
Mark have given Lily sleeping pills? It was
<
unlikely that he would intentionally hurt his
own daughter… Or would he?
I opened the camera app with a sense of
dread. It wasn’t long before rage exploded
within me.
The footage showed Mark, clear as day,
crushing up sleeping pills and adding them to
Lily’s bottle!
“Don’t worry Tiffany, I’ll be there to pick you
up!”
“That kid cries nonstop, time to make her
quiet down for a bit.”
He had no idea he was being recorded!
He had been so cruel to Lily! She was his own
flesh and blood.
<
More tears blurred my vision, this time not
from sadness, but anger. No mother could
stand by while her child is harmed, even if
that person was the father.
I wiped my face, forcing myself to calm down,
and continued reviewing the footage. I was
shocked to see that while I was at work, Mark
had been bringing Tiffany home, while saying
he was working from home.
