Eviction Betrayal

At nine months pregnant, Jessica received a cold message from her husband telling her not to come home because his family needed privacy. Confused and shaken, she tried calling him, only to be dismissed and told to stay elsewhere while he entertained his relatives. Alone and increasingly frightened as contractions began, she realized she had no support from the man who was supposed to stand beside her.

When labor started progressing, she begged him to come with her to the hospital, but he refused again, calling her dramatic and needy. Left with no choice, she drove herself to the hospital in pain, unaware that what awaited her at home would be far worse than abandonment as she prepared to give birth alone just as something unsettling began to unfold.

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Aria Lexicon is the pen name of the writer and editor behind The Daily Signal, a site for original short fiction about families, grudges, awkward neighbors and the small decisions that turn into big ones. Every story is invented; every character is made up. When She isn't writing, She's reading other people's stories and trying to figure out why the good ones work.

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