After that, baby brother coughed for a long time.”
I felt my knees give way. The people around us stood pale, shocked; some started crying. My mother-in-law stood motionless, her face like stone, then suddenly screamed:
— “She’s lying!
She made it all up! She’s just a child — why are you listening to her?!”
But her voice was trembling, her hands were shaking, her eyes darted nervously — it was obvious: the truth had come out. My husband stood beside her, pale.
And I just stared at that woman who came into my home every day with her advice, her lectures, her fake care — and I finally understood that maybe it was she who had taken my son away from me.
