The Camera I Installed for Our Baby Became His Love Letter to Her

For an entire year after our daughter was born, my husband slept in the guest room.

For her safety, I'd installed a camera in the master bedroom that ran twenty-four hours a day.

That night, while he was in the shower, his phone kept chiming with one notification after another.

I had never once checked his phone, but in that moment, as if guided by some unseen hand, I picked it up.

In the message thread, almost every night in the small hours, he'd been sending the same woman a clip from that camera, along with a line of text.

"See? I didn't touch her today."