Just three months after I gave birth, my husband's mother Sophia White threw my daughter Kelly Smith in the trash while I was out, and when I found out, she threatened me that if I didn't have a son, I would never see my daughter again.

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"Sophia, I'm back. A can of powdered milk is really expensive now. Does Kelly have any..."

Before I could finish my sentence, I looked at the empty stroller and had a bad feeling.

Then, seeing Sophia come back from outside, I felt more anxious.

"Sophia, where's Kelly?"

She began haltingly and just asked me to look for Kelly in the room. Finally, she said impatiently,

"Are you trying to make things difficult for me? I told you that she's at home, so just take your time looking for her."

I was extremely anxious. There was no way a one-three-month-old child could run away.

I searched the whole house, even under the bed, but I still didn't find her.

Before I went out to buy powdered milk, I had told Sophia to take good care of Kelly at home and I would be back in a minute. But how…

Looking at the calm and composed expression of Sophia, I felt sad and wanted to cry. Although she didn't like Kelly, she was her grandmother after all. How could she not worry about her at all?

Just at that moment, my husband Devin Smith opened the door carrying food. I rushed towards him like I was grasping at straws. But before I could say anything, Sophia spoke first.

"Oh my God, what a sin! Your wife couldn't even take good care of your baby. While I was taking out the trash, Kelly disappeared."

I was stunned for a moment and explained hurriedly.

But Sophia lay on the ground and threw a tantrum, yelling at me to find her granddaughter.

It was simply that the villain became the accuser even before being accused.

"Sophia, you don't like Kelly at all, and you were the only one at home before. I can't figure out what you did."

As soon as I finished speaking, Sophia raised her hand to scratch my face, calling me a bitch and slandered her. I was really anxious and didn't want to talk to her any more.

"Sophia, let's not waste time. The neighbor downstairs has installed a surveillance camera at the entrance of the unit. Let's go check it out. Since Kelly is not at home, maybe someone broke into the house and took her away."

After saying that, my husband and I hurried out and knocked on the neighbor's door.

Fortunately, the time was right after work and the neighbor was home. After we explained the situation, the neighbor was willing to help.

In the surveillance video, a few minutes after I went out, Sophia also came downstairs. She was holding a cardboard box with the garbage in it. Next, it was people coming in and out.

My eyes were red and I stared at the screen. Finally, I lost hope. But at that moment, the neighbor's child suddenly spoke.

"Dad, I also want the doll in the box. Its hand is like my brother's. Can you ask mom to get the link and buy it for me?"

I was stunned when I heard that.

Following her gaze, sure enough, a short and thick finger was exposed outside the cardboard box in Sophia's hands.

Suddenly, the news I had read before came to my mind that a babysitting abused the child, and the child's grandmother smothered the child to death with a pillow because the child was too noisy.

Thinking of that, I quickly ran home to question Sophia.

At first, Sophia tried to make excuses.

Until I mentioned calling the police, she admitted it but cursed,

"You are a jinx. Devin paid to marry you to have a son, but you only gave birth to a daughter and even tricked Devin into getting sterilized."

What?

She treated me as a tool?

After some haggling, I was just worth 20,000 dollars as a tool to give birth to a son?

Fortunately, Devin stood by me.

He immediately stepped forward and accused Sophia.

Unexpectedly, she fell headfirst.

Fortunately, she was sent to the hospital in time.

She just fainted with anger.

I still didn't know where Kelly was.

And Sophia was unconscious on the hospital bed.

I felt extremely anxious.

When I came back with the water, I saw Sophia lying on the bed watching videos. Seeing me come in, she continued to pretend to sleep. I had no choice but to kneel beside the bed and beg her to tell me where Kelly was. She ignored me and turned over. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I took out my cell phone to call the police. Suddenly, she got up suddenly and slapped me. I covered my burning cheek, watching her smash my phone.

"You bitch, if you call the police, you will never see Kelly again."

I suppressed my emotions, looking at her with a wry smile.

"Sophia, what do you want? A grandson? As long as Kelly can come back, I will agree to it."

Hearing that, she glanced at me.

"It is your duty to give birth to a son. Besides, if you can give the house and car from your dowry to Devin's younger brother, I will consider it."

Hearing that, I gritted my teeth and agreed.

After she was discharged from the hospital and at her urging, I completed the transfer of the house and car in one week. After Devin knew that, he didn't say anything. But I could feel that he was incredulous.

I was very dissatisfied about his inaction. His mother was so blatant, yet he could still go to work as normal.

After that, I had to give birth to a son first, and then Sophia would tell me where Kelly was.

But she never demanded that her other son John Smith have to have a son.

She only explained,

"Because Devin is the eldest, he should take the responsibility of having a son. John is too young to be in hurry to have a son."

Too young? John was almost thirty years old.

Because of Kelly, I was absent-minded. But I still had to try for a son.

In order to make me give birth to a son, Sophia was always giving me something to drink.

But it was stimy and smelled bad.

"Don't hesitate. Just drink it quickly. This is a folk remedy I asked for. You don't know that it is very difficult to catch toads nowadays. Thanks to John that he went back to the countryside to bring it to you."

Toad?

Suddenly, my stomach churned. I felt so sick as to run to the bathroom and vomited.

She thought I was pregnant and came to give me a pregnancy test stick. But seeing that I wasn't pregnant, she immediately walked away unhappily.

"You're so useless. John's wife had three abortions in the past year. Try harder. There's some medicine left on the table. Don't waste it."

I held onto the toilet and wiped away my tears.

My nails dug into my skin.

It seemed that only pain could keep me going.

The desire to see Kelly gave me the courage to swallow the rest of the medicine with the broken bones.

In the days after that, it didn't really work, but instead caused me to have diarrhea for several days.

So Sophia gave another folk remedy to me. So mysterious.

During that period, I was really worried about Kelly, so I bought a hairpin, then asked Sophia to give it to Kelly and take a photo of Kelly wearing it. At least I could confirm she was safe. Otherwise, I would call the police.

After considering, Sophia promised to give me photos within three days. In the middle of the night, I was awakened by a fishy smell. Because Devin was away on a business trip, I had to go check it out myself. Then I found that Sophia's door was half open and there were voices inside.

"Is it fresh this time? It smells so bad. You and I are relatives. You can't fool me. Don't make Celina King get sick after drinking it. Be careful. Many people have abortions now. You use your connections to get some more placentas."

What? Could it be that those days, all I drank was...? Thinking of that and smelling it, I almost vomited at the door. Then, Sophia called another person.

"My granddaughter is still there, right? If it's inconvenient for you to receive the delivery, I'll deliver it to you personally. Just take a photo. The child's mom is crazy and she insisted on seeing it."

What? Still there?

Sophia didn't know about Kelly's current situation?

I had a lot of thoughts in my mind.

But I didn't push the door.

The next day, I forced myself to finish the disgusting medicine. When Sophia found an excuse to go out, I pretended to take a nap and then secretly followed her. It was about two kilometers from home. Sophia walked to a local restaurant. There weren't many guests inside. Seeing her coming, the front desk clerk opened the back door directly. I pretended to look at the menu and glanced inside out of the corner of my eye that it was just a backyard.

"Madam, are you ready to order now?"

I silently pulled up the mask.

"Just the specialty."

When the dishes were almost served, Sophia came out from behind, chatting and laughing with the proprietress.

After Sophia left, I was afraid of being discovered not being at home, so I packed up all the food and gave it to my neighbor downstairs.

Fortunately, Sophia didn't suspect anything.

She handed me the phone with a smug look on her face.

"See, she is well taken care of. Don't worry. I'll return her to you when my grandson is born."

I looked at the picture and found no bruises on her body, but her cheeks were a little thinner.

As long as she wasn't abused, that was fine.

I felt relieved.

But I just always felt like something was wrong.

Maybe because Kelly had lost too much weight.

"Well, well, give me back my phone. Instead of thinking too much, you might as well try hard. When you get older, there will be so many risks. Don't affect my grandson."

I was speechless.

Kelly should be in that local restaurant.

As I was trying to think of an excuse to get out, John's wife suddenly came to my house.

"Sophia, are you home? Celina, I have something to talk with her."

"She's out."

Hearing that, she sat down on the sofa and raised her hand to ask me to pour water. She also ridiculed me for being born to serve others. I ignored her. After all, everyone knew that Sophia liked John's family the most. I couldn't cause any trouble now. Otherwise, Sophia would really not let me find Kelly. By the way, John's wife had gained weight again recently. She was originally 65 kilograms. Now, she should be at least 70 kilograms. Could it be that she was pregnant again? It turned out that I was right.

As soon as Sophia came back, John's wife took her arm and said she had an abortion, so she wanted Sophia to take care of her.

As far as I knew, John's wife had had several previous abortions that John didn't approve of. But she thought she was too young, so she insisted on abortions. John was indeed much older than her. John was 26 years old and she was only 20 years old. At first, Sophia was proud of her son for marrying such a young girl and went around bragging about John.

"Sophia, if you can't, let Celina take care of me. She's capable of taking care of all of us."

Her coquettish tone and words made me want to beat her. Fortunately, I used the excuse of preparing for pregnancy, so Sophia went take care of her. In fact, Sophia knew that John's wife didn't like to have children and had an abortion as soon as she got pregnant, so she had to force me to have a son.

Devin was busy with work, so I was basically the only one at home.

Then I took the opportunity to go to the local restaurant again.

There weren't many people there that day. After I ordered, I wanted to open the door to the backyard while the front desk clerk wasn't paying attention. Unfortunately, I was discovered.