His Mistress Poisoned My Daughter

My daughter Charlotte was five years old.

She was born with a congenital heart and lung condition, and she had a deadly allergy to strawberries.

One bite of anything made with strawberries would trigger full-body anaphylactic shock. She would suffocate and die.

On her fifth birthday, I stood gripping a critical condition notice, my fingernails digging into the paper until the edges crumbled.

A doctor pulled me into the ICU hallway, his voice cold as a winter frost.

"Mrs. Jones, Charlotte has gone into anaphylactic shock. Her heart and lung failure has worsened. She won't survive the day.