At five in the morning, when the city was still breathing silence, violence burst into my life with a brutality that left no room for doubt or hope.<\/p>\n
The bedroom door slammed against the wall with a dry crash, as if announcing the beginning of something that had been brewing in the darkness for too long.<\/p>\n
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Victor saw me as a person, as a problem, as an obstacle, as something that should be corrected with shouts and control.<\/p>\n
\u2014\u201cGet up, you useless cow!\u201d\u2014 he shouted, tearing off the sheets, reducing my humanity to a word that hurt more than any physical blow.<\/p>\n
I was six months pregnant, but at that moment, my body was not a refuge of life, but a battlefield where fear and survival fought without respite.<\/p>\n
I tried to sit up, but the pain in my back and the weight in my belly reminded me that every movement was a negotiation with suffering.<\/p>\n
\u2014\u201cIt hurts\u2026 I can\u2019t move fast\u201d\u2014 I whispered, my voice breaking, waiting for the slightest sign of empathy that finally arrived.<\/p>\n
He laughed, and that laugh was worse than any insult, because it was devoid of humanity, full of learned contempt.<\/p>\n
\u2014\u201cOther women suffer and don\u2019t complain\u201d\u2014 she replied, as if pain were a competition and I was deliberately losing.<\/p>\n
I went down the stairs leaning against the wall, each step a humiliation, each breath a struggle to keep my feet up because of the baby I was carrying inside.<\/p>\n
In the kitchen, the scene was even more devastating than the physical violence: it was the normalization of cruelty.<\/p>\n
Helepa and Ra\u00fal, her parents, were sitting like spectators of a daily spectacle, while Nora held her recorded phone, as if my pain were entertainment.<\/p>\n
\u2014\u201cLook at her\u201d\u2014 said Helepa, smiling with a coldness that chilled the blood\u2014 \u201cshe thinks that carrying a baby makes her special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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