The next day, I returned to my house with Paulina.
I wasn’t there to beg.
I was there to get my things back and understand what lie had managed to destroy my marriage in a single night.
Before opening the door, I heard voices coming from the living room.
—When the baby girl is born, we’ll have to see if Natalia is fit to raise her —my mother was saying.
—That baby was supposed to be my family —Laura replied—. She took everything from me.
A horrible chill ran through me.
I walked in.
Laura was sitting on my couch, wearing one of my robes, drinking coffee from a mug Andrés had given me.
My mother had my keychain on the table, as if the house belonged to her too.
—What are you doing here?
—Andrés said we could stay —my mother answered.
—Andrés has no right to bring into my house a woman who threatened me.
Laura let out a dry laugh.
—You still act like the victim.
Then she pulled out her phone and showed me screenshots.
Supposed messages from six years ago where she told me she was in love with Andrés, and I supposedly replied that I would seduce him first just to make her suffer.
I felt sick to my stomach.
—That’s fake.
—That’s always what you say when you get caught —my mother snapped.
I pulled out my phone.
I kept old conversations backed up in the cloud.
I searched the date.
There it was — the real conversation.
Laura had invited me to a barbecue at a friend’s house. She never mentioned Andrés. She never said she was in love with anyone.
—Look —I said, trembling—. Everything is here.
My mother didn’t even want to look.
—There are also the letters —Laura said.
She pulled out several folded pages.
The handwriting looked like mine.
They said I hated seeing her happy, that I wanted to steal her place, that Andrés was “a trophy.”
I was speechless.
The handwriting was almost identical.
But those words were not mine.
Then I remembered an old notebook from high school where I used to write fictional stories.
One of those stories was about a jealous woman who destroyed her friend’s life.
Laura had taken my writings, changed the names and dates, and turned them into a fake confession.
—You stole my notebooks from Mom’s house —I said.
Laura clenched her jaw.
—How convenient.
At that moment, the locksmith Paulina had called arrived.
—I’m here to change the locks.
My mother stood up furiously.
—You can’t leave your sister out on the street.
—Yes, I can. And if you don’t leave, I’ll call the police.
Laura leaned close to my ear.
—You can change the locks, but you can’t change what Andrés thinks about you.
Once they left, I collapsed onto the living room floor.
Paulina hugged me while the locksmith worked silently.
That afternoon, I went to the prosecutor’s office.
I brought videos from the baby shower, fake screenshots, real conversations, and the altered pages.
The attorney who helped me recommended filing for a restraining order.
As we walked out, Paulina got a call from an acquaintance.
—Natalia, Laura got fired three months ago. She’s in debt. And she was searching online for how to imitate handwriting.
Everything suddenly made sense.
Laura hadn’t suddenly lost her mind.
She had built an entire lie to blame me for her own failure.
That night, Andrés came to the house.
He looked pale, his eyes red.
I showed him everything: original messages, dates, files, searches, videos.
He sat there unable to speak.
—My God… I believed her.
—And you left me alone.
—Forgive me, Natalia.
I looked at him.
I loved him, but something inside me was no longer the same.
—I don’t know if something like this can be forgiven.
The next day, he called my mother to show her the evidence.
I listened from the kitchen.
When he hung up, Andrés looked defeated.
—She says you manipulated everything. That Laura would never lie like this.
My own mother had chosen the lie.
That night, I found an envelope under the door.
Inside was a handwritten note.
“As long as that baby is born, everyone will forget about me. I won’t allow it.”
And that’s when I realized Laura still wasn’t finished…
What do you think Laura will do next?
Because when someone has already lost all shame, the most dangerous thing is what they still dare to do.