Days after we buried my daughter, her daycare teacher sent me something that implicated my husband. What I saw destroyed everything I thought I knew about my marriage.
The morning Ava, my four-year-old daughter, got sick started like any other weekday.
She sat at the kitchen counter in pink pajamas, swinging her legs while making her stuffed rabbit “talk” to me in a tiny squeaky voice.
“Mommy,” she said seriously through the rabbit, “Mr. Bun-Bun says, ‘You work too much.'”
I laughed despite being stressed. “Mr. Bun-Bun should get a job so he can help me.”
Ava giggled so hard she almost dropped her fork!
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I was supposed to take Ava to daycare that morning, as I always did, but my office had moved up an important meeting at the last minute.
My husband, Mark, grabbed his car keys from the counter. “I can take her. It’s on my way.”
“You sure?” I asked.
Ava raised her rabbit proudly. “Daddy can do it!”
I kissed the top of my daughter’s head. “I’ll pick you up later, okay?”
“Can we get nuggets after?”
“You already know the answer.”
“Yesss!” she said happily.
That was the last normal conversation I ever had with my daughter.
A few hours later, my phone rang while I was at work.
It was Miss Greenwood, Ava’s daycare teacher, and the second I heard the panic in her voice, I knew something was wrong.
“Mrs. Carter,” she said quickly without greeting, “Ava suddenly became very sick during class! The ambulance has already taken her to the hospital!” Then Miss Greenwood gave me the name of the hospital.
I was out the door before she finished speaking!
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