MY HUSBAND HIT ME IN THE HOSPITAL RIGHT AFTER I GAVE BIRTH… BUT I NEVER EXPECTED THE REVENGE THAT FOLLOWED

“Suck, you’re good for nothing!” He shouted in her face and then pushed her against the wall.

Camila’s back hit the tiles hard. Pain ran through her, but her only concern was to protect her baby.

“Please, Ricardo, I’m pregnant,” she begged with her hands on her belly.

Exactly. You should take better care of me now that you’re going to be a mother. What kind of woman are you?

The next day, Camila woke up with a huge bruise on her back. Ricardo had already left for work leaving only one note: “Put on a long-sleeved blouse. I don’t want people to talk.”

Back in the present, Camila finished covering the mark on her face and looked at herself in the small hand mirror. The woman who looked at her from the reflection was a stranger: pale, haggard, with fear etched in every line of expression.

Leonardo shifted in his arms and opened his small dark eyes. For a moment, Camila saw in them the innocence that she had lost so long ago.

“You have to grow strong, my child,” she whispered. Stronger than mom.

The sound of keys on the front door startled her. Ricardo came home early from work. Camila hurriedly put away the makeup and went to the kitchen carrying the baby.

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