For the next couple of hours, I sat in a chair, watching the rain fall outside, thinking about all the time I had spent with Ethan.

With every flash of lightning in the distance, memories of him lit up in my mind. I thought of the gentleness he’d shown me when we made love.

My hand automatically went to my abdomen, where our child was growing.

I couldn’t believe that someone would show me tenderness, make a baby with me, watch me give birth to their child… and then kill me.

But that was ...