At five in the morning, when the city was still breathing silence, violence burst into my life with a brutality that lef
The blow to my thigh was sharp, direct, unremovable, and the scream that came out of me was both of pain and terror.
I curled up protecting my belly, because at that moment, my life mattered less than that of the being that had just died.
—“He deserves it”— said Helepa, laughing, validating the violence as if it were education.
That phrase, repeated in many homes, is the root of a problem that society still doesn’t want to look at head-on.
—“Please… the baby…”— I begged, and that plea wasn’t just for me, it was for a hypochondriac life trapped in a hostile environment.
Victor raised the stick, and in his eyes there was no doubt, only a dangerous conviction fueled by years of impunity.
At that moment, I saw my phone on the ground, a few meters away, like a last chance in the middle of chaos.
I lashed out at him, ignoring the pain, ignoring the risk, because sometimes survival is not logical, it is pure instinct.
—“Catch her!”— shouted Raúl, and that order revealed that it was not an isolated act, but a collective dynamic.
My fingers touched the screen, and in a desperate movement, I opened the chat with my brother Alex, the only person who could break that cycle.
t no room for doubt or hope.
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.
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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.
—“Get up, you useless cow!”— he shouted, tearing off the sheets, reducing my humanity to a word that hurt more than any physical blow.
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.
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.
—“It hurts… I can’t move fast”— I whispered, my voice breaking, waiting for the slightest sign of empathy that finally arrived.
