I was about to help her to the living room, but my husband stopped me: “Let Mom lie down here, it’s only one night. One night. Our wedding night.”
Bitterly, I took the pillow to the sofa, not daring to react for fear of being labeled a “rude wife.”
All night I tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. The shadow of someone upstairs paced back and forth, the wood creaked, then silence. It was almost daylight when I finally fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was almost 6 a.m. I went upstairs intending to wake my husband and go greet my relatives. I opened the door softly… and froze. My husband was lying on his back. My mother-in-law was lying very close to him, in the same bed I had given up for her. I approached, intending to wake him. But when I looked at the sheet, I stopped abruptly. On the white sheet… there was a
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