When the weekend was over Sam and I decided to go home. On our way there his mother called to ask where we had reached cause she wanted to prepare us a meal, I thought to myself
"if she tried to kill me and the baby last time she would do it again."
Sam told her we were on our way and would be home in the early evenings. She cut the call. I made him stop at almost every station making up excuses like bathroom breaks or buying me something to eat just to avoid getting home early. And when we finally got there I just went straight to my room and slept.
In the morning she brought me breakfast and asked if she could feed me but I refused due to the scenario that took place last time. This went on and on till I was only left with two weeks to deliver.
Later in the evening I received a phone call from one of the biggest law firms in Namibia asking me to go for a job interview that was going to take place in two months time, I quickly accepted the offer and explained to him that I was married and pregnant and was currently living in Botswana with my husband then he told me it was okay but he was going to be waiting for my arrival.
I was so happy and excited when the phone call cut not knowing my mother-in-law overhead my conversion and was ready to do anything to ruin and shatter my dreams.
I decided not to tell Sam cause I wanted to surprise him.
It was 10 o'clock that night when I head a knock on the door, I woke up and found Sam. I asked what was wrong and he told me that he was going on a business trip with his dad that would last for a week. I felt sad cause we had just started to bond and he was leaving me already. I then asked why he didn't tell me earlier or in the morning he responded saying he didn't know about the trip till now and that they were leaving early in the morning. Like wise they left before we woke up and during that period he was away we were talking each time he had time.
It was finally a week and I was impatiently waiting for my husband to return. Suddenly my mother-in-law called me and asked me to put water on the stove for and told me that it should just be warm not boiling hot then after I do that I should go to her room and give her a massage, I did as wise. After a while I tried to go and check on the water but she told me not to. Thirty minutes went by and I knew in my heart that the water had been boiling by now, she then got up and went to check on the water I followed her quietly. When we got to the kitchen she opened the pot by removing the lid and found the water boiling she looked at me and called me before I could do or say anything she grabbed my hands and put them in the boiling water, for a second I couldn't scream but when she let go I screamed on top of my voice and collapsed.