Part1: My husband added three drops to my nightly honey water. He didn’t know I’d already sent it to the lab.
The doctor’s office smelled of disinfectant and quiet dread. Dr. Elena Vargas, a woman in her late forties with sharp eyes and kind hands, sat across from me. The lab report lay on the polished wooden desk between us like a loaded gun. “Señora Hernández,” she began, her voice low and careful, “the liquid…