11/16/2025
I'll never forget that day at my baby shower, when I was eight months pregnant. My husband sh0cked everyone by announcing he had given the $10,000 we had saved for the delivery to his mother. When I tried to stop him, he snapped furiously, “How dare you stop me?!” Before I could react, my difficult mother-in-law grabbed my arm harshly, and in the struggle I lost my balance and slipped backward into the pool. As I sank, struggling to breathe and protect my baby, my husband just stood there… almost amused. And then, when I looked down at my belly, I froze in sh0ck…
It was supposed to be a beautiful day — a baby shower my friends organized at our home in Valencia. Pink decorations, soft music, and a cake with the name we chose for our daughter: Lucía. Everything felt perfect… until my husband, Javier, arrived with his mother, Carmen, who had never truly accepted me.
During lunch, Javier stood and raised a glass. “I have something important to announce,” he said. “I’ve decided to give the ten thousand euros we saved for the birth to my mother. She needs it more than we do.” The whole room went silent. “Javier, that money is for the hospital,” I whispered. He glared back. “Don’t question me in front of everyone!”
His mother suddenly stood up. “My son can do whatever he wants,” she said sharply. I stepped forward, trying to stay calm, but in the middle of the tension Javier brushed past me, and in the chaos I stumbled near the pool’s edge. Carmen’s sudden push to “move me aside,” as she called it, made me lose my footing entirely, and I fell into the water.
My dress clung to my body as I struggled to stay afloat. The shock, the weight of my belly, the panic — everything hit me at once. My vision blurred, sounds faded, and the last thing I saw was Javier, not helping, just standing there with a cold expression. And just before everything went dark, I felt an unusual movement in my belly… and I froze...⬇️