PART1- YOU'VE BEEN KILLING THEM,MAMA

Lelo couldn't stop crying.

She wiped her nose on her sleeve. The tears wouldn't stop. They slipped down her cheeks and onto the screen, blurring the words she never wanted to see again.

She had been so careful.

So patient.

She tried so hard to be the perfect little girl.

She gave Mama space. Gave her time. Let her go to school, let her play human, let her pretend she wasn't already theirs.

But this…

This was betrayal.

> "You killed them, Mama," she whispered.

She took a deep breath — the kind that shook her whole frame.

And snapped a photo of the pill in her hand.

She didn't want to send it.

But she had to.

Because if Daddy didn't know, she would be the only one mourning all the little brothers and sisters who never came home.

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She opened her private chat with Roman — her one safe space — and tapped her message in slow, trembling strokes.

> Lelo [10:02 AM]:

Daddy... I think something's wrong with Mama.

She stared at the screen.

Waited.

Then her fingers started flying, faster now, the panic bleeding through her words.

> Lelo [10:03 AM]:

I found a pill in her room. I looked it up. It's not medicine for being sick. It's... it stops babies, Daddy. It stops our babies.

She sent the photo.

Her hands shook harder.

> Lelo [10:04 AM]:

She's been taking them after you touch her. That's why there's no baby. That's why nothing is growing. She's been killing them.

All of them.

She paused. Sniffed.

Then typed one last message — a question that hurt more than anything else.

> Does that mean she doesn't want me either?

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Roman didn't reply.

Not with words.

Not with typing bubbles.

Just silence.

But Lelo knew her father.

She knew silence was the most dangerous sound of all.

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