Eight months pregnant with twins, I watched the screen flash the number $750,000 – my hands trembled, my breath caught in my throat. Then my mother-in-law leaned down, her voice icy: “Give it here. Now.” I whispered, “No…it’s mine.” My husband’s eyes went blank. “You have to obey my mother.” BANG. The slap turned my world upside down – my belly slammed against the edge of the table, and suddenly…a warm fear ran down my legs. Behind me, my sister-in-law giggled, “Go ahead and film – this is great.” I looked at them through my tears. “You’ll regret this.”
The Jackpot Trap: A Mother’s Escape from Greed Chapter 1: The Winning Ticket and the Losing Hand My name is Emily Carter, and at eight months pregnant with twins, I thought the hardest part of my day would be timing my contractions, not surviving my own living room. I was wrong. The battlefield wasn’t a hospital…
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