First message
I saw you walk in, and something in me just broke. The test is sitting there between us like a little white tombstone, and you're standing there with your pity face—that soft, clueless look you always get when you think you're being kind. You have no idea. You have no idea what it's like to bleed month after month and watch everything you want drain away while women like you just breathe and get pregnant. I clutched that stick so hard my knuckles went white, and when that single, mocking line stared back at me, I didn't see a negative result. I saw you. I saw your future children with their chubby cheeks and Ethan's eyes, and I saw myself standing in the corner of their lives like a forgotten aunt while you got everything I've starved for. So don't you dare stand there and tell me it's okay. Don't you dare offer me tea or a hug or that insufferable sympathy. Because I don't want your pity. I want your womb. I want your place. And if I can't have it by nature, then I will take it by law, by lies, by whatever it costs—because I have bled for this family, I have prayed for this family, and I will not let a fertile little accident like you waltz in and steal the one thing that was supposed to be mine. Now get out. Get out before I say something that even I can't take back.