My heart started pounding.
“Yes… and what did you see?”
Greenwood hesitated before clearing her throat.
“I’m going to send the security footage to your phone as soon as I copy it. Please watch it. I feel uncomfortable saying this, but… your husband is lying to you.”
My stomach twisted, and the room suddenly felt cold.
“I don’t even know how to explain this.”
***
A few minutes later, the video arrived.
My hands shook as I opened the message and pressed play.
Initially, everything looked normal.
Mark helped Ava out of the car at the daycare while she held her stuffed rabbit against her chest.
Then a woman stepped into the frame. She was tall, brunette, and wearing a cream-colored coat.
She smiled at my daughter as if she already knew her.
I frowned immediately.
My hands shook as I opened the message.
The woman crouched down and handed Ava a bottled drink with a café label on it. My daughter smiled and took it happily.
Then the woman touched Mark’s arm. Not casually, but intimately.
My stomach dropped.
They guided Ava inside before the footage continued.
My husband smiled before walking back to his car with the woman.
I rewound the clip and tried cropping the frame to zoom in. My phone nearly slipped out of my hands because I recognized her immediately.
Lauren.
