The woman who once told me, “Lauri, your marriage is so beautiful.”
The woman who had apparently been waiting for a chance to take my place.
The next day, my mother-in-law arrived with two black bags.
Not to comfort me.
To collect Diego’s belongings.
“How shameful, Laura,” she said, looking at my stomach as if it were already evidence against me. “Diego didn’t deserve this.”
“I didn’t cheat on him.”
She gave me a pitying smile.
“They all say that.”
Within a week, half the neighborhood knew.
The cheating wife.
The shameless woman.
The one who got pregnant after her husband’s vasectomy.
Then Diego posted a photo with Paola at a restaurant in Polanco. She was holding his arm.
The caption said:
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