I couldn’t sleep all night and didn’t even touch the food, which I always complained was too little. My stomach wouldn’t have been able to take it if I had tried.

I was nervous and scared. Something didn’t sit right with the way Samantha stalked out so calmly after learning that I was pregnant. She was too calm, and it could only mean she was planning something deadly.

I sat on the broken bed, staring out of the windows. The freedom of the birds that were flying freely in the sky had ...