arefree, his arm around Emily' s shoulders. Emily, her best friend since college, was be

. It had to be a mistake, some old foota

porter' s voice filled the room. "...and here in beautiful Bali, tourists are for

true," Mark said, his voice smooth and happy.

e been planning this for ages. It

ano. Sarah felt the air leave her lungs. The d

so straight to voicemail. The reality of it slammed into her with the force of a physical

' s voice cut t

unreadable mask. The nurses were busy with the babies, givi

he asked, his tone le

a trembling finger at the TV screen, w

e face, the tears starting to stream down her cheeks. He stepped cl

spered, the words barely aud

painstakingly put away from her salary for the babies. For the house. She fumbled with her phone a

a hundred and

over eight

ed it. He had taken every last cent she had saved

other-in-law. Sarah stared at it, her heart pounding with a mixture of dread

e still bright and cheerful. "Have the babies arrived yet? Is it

nected from Sarah' s reality, that for

inally said, her voice fla

the line. The warmth in her mother-in-law' s v

Girls. Well. That' s

id, the words tasting like ash

y? Well, I' m sure there' s a reasonable

breaking. "He drained our savings account to pay for it. He cancell

"You' re probably just emotional from the childbirth. And you shouldn' t have been so

for a fact that her mother-in-law control

give my son a boy, you can' t expect him to stick around forever. You need to learn

her husband. It was his whole family. It was her best friend. Everyone she thought she could count on had aband