Mom?! What’s happening?

And I stood beside him, cold as ice, no longer hiding the truth:

— Looks like someone wasn’t supposed to drink that glass.

Later, at the hospital, I learned the rest. It turned out my mother-in-law had overheard our conversation a few days earlier and realized we were expecting a baby.

And instead of feeling happy, she decided to “free” us — and herself — from the “shame.” She feared gossip, judgment, whispers… and was ready to do something truly vile.

But in the end, she was the one who paid the price.