While I was about to help her get to the living room, my husband stopped me:
Let Mom stay here, it’s just a wedding. A wedding. The wedding.
Bitterly I carried the pillow to the sofa, without daring to react for fear that he would label me a “newly married and ill-mannered wife”.
I tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep. It was almost morning when I finally fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was almost six o’clock. I went upstairs with the intention of waking my husband and going downstairs to greet my maternal relatives.
I gently pushed the door to open it… and I froze.
My husband was lying on his back. My mother-in-law was very close to him, in the same bed that I had abandoned.
I approached with the intention of waking him. But as I scanned the sheet with my eyes, I suddenly stopped.
On the pure white sheet… there was a reddish-brown stain, slightly extended like dried blood.