After Years of Marriage I Still Couldn’t Get Pregnant, So My Mother-In-Law Drugged My Husband and Sent Another Woman to His Bed, Never Imagining I Would Quietly Send That Woman to My Father-In-Law’s Room Instead

Part 2

Before this, I had always thought my mother-in-law only resented me because I couldn’t have children. But that deep down she wasn’t a bad person.

After all, she wasn’t even my husband’s biological mother. Yet she still cared so much about whether he had an heir. I never imagined she could go this far.

Seeing how pale my face had gone, my husband quickly pulled me into his arms and comforted me gently. “Don’t be scared, honey, I’m here. Your husband is smart. I can handle all of this.”

Hearing that, I just kept sighing. I knew he was smart, and I knew how much he loved me. But my mother-in-law caused trouble every few days, and I was truly exhausted.

“Ethan, maybe we should just get divorced. I really can’t have children, and the conflict between me and your mother will never end. She’ll never like me.” I lowered my head and murmured the words.

To my surprise, the moment I finished, my husband panicked and gripped my hands tightly.

“Honey, don’t talk nonsense. I will never divorce you.”

“I know that over these years you’ve suffered so much because of my mother. But don’t worry, I’ve already found a way to make her give up this idea completely.”

Hearing that, I felt much better. But at the same time I couldn’t help being curious. “But your mother has always wanted a grandchild to hold. Can you really change her mind?”

A flicker of hesitation crossed my husband’s face, but then, as if he’d made up his mind, he said seriously,

“Before, I could never bring myself to do anything too harsh to her. Even though she isn’t my real mother, she raised me all these years.”

“But this time, she really can’t be forgiven. To think she’d come up with the idea of putting a woman in my bed.”

“So I can only fight her with her own methods.”

“She’s always saying the family line is about to die out. Fine. I’ll help her fulfill that wish.”

Then he told me his plan.

When I heard it, my eyes went wide.

This method was truly merciless.

But for the sake of a few peaceful days for the two of us, I decided to go along with him.

The evening came quickly.

When my husband and I returned to the family estate, sure enough, Sabrina Reyes, his childhood sweetheart, was there too.

This time, when she saw me, she didn’t toss out the usual barbs. My mother-in-law looked especially cheerful, her face glowing as though something wonderful were about to happen.

When she saw me, she dropped her usual sarcasm and instead pulled me close, fussing over me with words full of false concern.

It was just that I didn’t miss the calculating glint that flashed deep in her eyes.

During dinner, my mother-in-law did everything she could to get my husband to drink. He refused over and over, but in the end he had no choice but to empty glass after glass.

I quietly watched my mother-in-law and Sabrina Reyes. Sure enough, both of them were staring at my husband with eyes that said he was already prey in their grasp, just waiting for the moment to strike.

After a few drinks, my husband began to look bleary and dazed.

I offered to take him upstairs to rest, but my mother-in-law brushed me off, saying that as the star of the birthday party I had to stay and entertain the guests.

She insisted on helping my husband up to the room herself.

I didn’t stop her. I simply waited until she was gone, then chose a hidden corner and opened my phone to the camera my husband had secretly had installed beforehand.

In the footage, my mother-in-law was helping my husband, his face already flushed red with drink, onto the bed, then immediately leaving to go fetch Sabrina Reyes.

The instant the door closed, my husband’s eyes snapped open. He sat up at once, his movements sharp and clear, unbelievably alert, nothing at all like a man who’d been drugged.

A moment later, he half-carried his own father, dead drunk, into the room. He laid him neatly on the bed, then slipped away like a gust of wind.

Everything was ready. All that was left was to wait for my mother-in-law and Sabrina Reyes to fall into the net themselves.

It was just that, at the very last moment, a small flicker of guilt still rose in my heart.

After all, she was my husband’s mother, and arranging things like this felt cruel. On reflex, I switched the camera over to my mother-in-law and Sabrina Reyes.

To my surprise, at that exact moment I saw the two of them quietly conspiring together.

My mother-in-law, full of smug satisfaction, whispered her instructions. “Tonight it absolutely has to succeed. Once it’s done, we’ll throw that little wretch out of this house.”

Sabrina Reyes seemed worked up from the drinking, her eyes blazing with resentment.

“Ethan was supposed to be mine. If that wretch hadn’t forced her way in, we’d have been married long ago.”

“And she’s so scheming. Back then we paid someone to run her car off the road so she’d lose her ability to bear children, and she still got Ethan to marry her. What kind of spell did she cast on him?”

“Don’t worry. Once you have his child, everything will be yours.”

Hearing this, my whole body went cold. I felt like I’d fallen into a pit of ice, my hands trembling beyond my control.

For all these years, I had blamed myself for not being able to have children. Facing my mother-in-law’s attacks and humiliations, I had endured it all and held on to this marriage with everything I had.

But I never imagined that the reason I couldn’t have a child was because they had done it!

They were the ones who had stolen my sacred right to be a mother, and so ruthlessly. Rage surged in my chest, and I clenched my fists so hard my nails nearly dug into my palms.

In that instant, I cast aside every last hesitation in my heart.

I would not stop my husband anymore.

Those two people, I would not spare either one of them!

Sabrina Reyes quickly stepped into the room. Perhaps because she was so worked up, she’d had quite a lot to drink too. She walked unsteadily, her eyes glazed, her mind no longer clear.

The moment she entered, she hurriedly stripped off her clothes and fumbled toward the bed where my father-in-law lay unconscious. She threw her arms around him, murmuring my husband’s name over and over.

After it was all over, perhaps afraid the drug would wear off and that my husband would wake and discover the truth, she took a pill to prevent pregnancy, then crept out of the house in the dead of night, careful as a petty thief.

Half a month later, my mother-in-law called the two of us back to the house again. This time my father-in-law was not present. After what happened that night, he had gone abroad on business.

During dinner, my mother-in-law suddenly announced the “joyous news”: Sabrina Reyes was pregnant.

“I think of Sabrina as my own daughter. From now on she’ll stay here at the house to rest through her pregnancy.”

“Honestly, the girl really is capable, getting pregnant so fast. Not like some people, no better than a hen that can’t lay an egg. I really don’t understand how a woman like that still has the face to show herself.”

Sabrina Reyes smiled smugly, one hand gently stroking her perfectly flat belly, and turned to my husband. “Ethan, do you prefer a boy or a girl?”

My husband looked at her coldly, his expression like he was looking at a complete stranger. “Boy or girl, it’s all the same. As long as it’s yours, I won’t like it.”

Sabrina Reyes’s face went pale at once. I picked up the thread, my voice gentle but venomous. “Then congratulations are truly in order. It’s just that Sabrina isn’t married yet. Whose child is this? Surely it doesn’t have no father?”

My mother-in-law glared at me, her voice full of displeasure. “If you can’t say anything nice, then keep your mouth shut. I think you’re just jealous that other people can have children and you can’t.”

Hearing his mother berate me, my husband immediately spoke up in my defense. “What goes on between my wife and me is our business. No one needs to interfere. And you’ve been married to my father for so many years, Mom. You never had a child either, did you?”

My mother-in-law’s face flushed red. She had clearly been struck right where it hurt, but she still had some wariness toward her stepson, so she didn’t dare argue back.

Sabrina Reyes, on the other hand, looked deeply insulted. She forced herself to stand tall and lifted her chin at me with false confidence. “What would you know? If you knew whose child I’m carrying, you’d be jealous enough to lose your mind!”

“And let me tell you, it’s not just one. The doctor says I’m carrying triplets!”

My mother-in-law immediately chimed in, her eyes shining as if golden grandchildren were already in hand. “That’s right, three of them! Not like some people who can’t even produce one. A whole life spent in envy!”

Hearing that, I nearly choked on my water.

Honestly, my mother-in-law wasn’t wrong. After all, she’d had Sabrina injected with ovulation-stimulating drugs. Triplets were hardly surprising.

My husband glanced at Sabrina just then, the corner of his mouth curling in a faint, almost imperceptible smile. “Impressive.”

Then he turned and winked at me, whispering, “Who’d have thought. My father’s got good genes.”

I gave him a helpless look.

I really had never seen a woman like my mother-in-law. Her own husband had gotten another woman pregnant with triplets, and she was so delighted she wanted to throw a celebration.

I just wondered whether, when the truth came out, she’d still want to treasure those babies in Sabrina’s belly like they were made of gold.

Hearing my husband’s words, Sabrina Reyes thought he was praising her and turned pink with bashful pleasure. “Thank you for the compliment. But this is what I should do. I don’t find it the least bit hard.”

Ethan let out a faint, contemptuous laugh and didn’t bother to respond, not even sparing her a glance. He simply put food on my plate with care, and when he saw I wasn’t eating well, he asked after me with concern.

Lately I really had been eating poorly. But afraid he’d worry, I swallowed back the nausea and forced down a few bites.

To my surprise, the more I ate, the more violently my stomach churned. The moment I swallowed, my stomach reacted fiercely, and I couldn’t hold it back. I doubled over coughing, as though I might be sick.

The instant Sabrina Reyes saw this, she reacted as if facing a great enemy and leapt up from her chair. “Are — are you pregnant with Ethan’s child?!”

Ethan quickly poured me a glass of water, waited until I’d finished, then turned to her irritably. “Whether my wife is pregnant or not, what does it have to do with you?”

Honestly, I had never considered the possibility that I might be pregnant. After all, the injury years ago had been severe, and the doctors had said my chances of conceiving were nearly zero.

But after Sabrina Reyes’s panicked outburst, I suddenly remembered that my period seemed to be quite late. Thinking it over, it really might be possible.

When Ethan heard this, his eyes lit up with eagerness too, and he asked me, “Honey, are you really pregnant?”

Before I could answer, Sabrina Reyes shrieked in alarm. “No, I won’t allow it! Even if she is pregnant, she has to get rid of it immediately!”

Ethan was instantly furious, his eyes blazing. “Sabrina Reyes, do you have a death wish? You stand right in front of me and tell my wife to have an abortion? Is something wrong with your head?”

Realizing she’d been too rash, Sabrina Reyes hurried to explain herself. “That’s not it, Ethan. I’m only thinking of you and her. She was hurt so badly she nearly had to have her uterus removed. Even if she’s pregnant, she won’t be able to deliver a healthy child!”

Hearing this, Ethan finally couldn’t restrain himself, and his anger erupted. “Whether the child can be born is for the doctors to decide. It’s not your place to sit here spouting nonsense! I’m telling you, if anything happens to my wife, I will not let you off!”

Sabrina Reyes was scolded until her face flushed red, but I still wasn’t ready to stop. I picked up coldly, my voice sharp as a knife. “Sabrina, you really are strange. You’re unmarried and you can happily have a child, but I’m the lawful wife and you’re forcing me to abort mine. Or could it be that those three babies you’re carrying are all part of some scheme of yours?”

Hearing this, the corner of Ethan’s mouth curled up, and the look he shot her carried a trace of cold sharpness.

Sabrina Reyes had wanted to say something more, but a single glance from him left her mute, not daring to make another sound.

In the end, the meal finally calmed down. Ethan immediately wanted to take me to the hospital for a checkup.

I just hadn’t expected Sabrina Reyes to dare block our way.

“It’s just a pregnancy. Is there any need to make such a fuss? I’m carrying three and I haven’t complained once. What are you pretending to be so weak for?” She lifted her chin at me as she spoke.

I took the checkup slip she’d just been showing off, held it up, and asked, “Oh, so you’re so strong? Then why bother going to the hospital at all? If you’re so capable, just give birth at home, and bite through the umbilical cord with your own teeth. That’s real ability.”

Sabrina Reyes immediately snatched the paper back from my hand, her eyes mocking and her tone full of disdain. “What are you, that you’d dare compare yourself to me? Your family is so poor you’ve never heard two coins clink together, while I’m a genuine heiress. My standing is naturally a hundred times more precious than yours.”

Her words were biting, but they weren’t wrong. My family really was poor. My father was a gambling addict, and my mother toiled her whole life and died young, worn down to nothing.

Before I met Ethan, I had lived in poverty and hardship.

Sabrina Reyes, meanwhile, was a relative on my mother-in-law’s side, and had once come from a distinguished family. Their fortunes had declined now, but compared to me back then she was still far better off.

My background had always been the thing that made me feel most inferior.

Hearing Sabrina Reyes insult my past, and afraid I’d be hurt, Ethan flew into a rage at once. “Shut your mouth. You’re standing in my wife’s house. Everything here belongs to her. If you think it’s too poor, then get out of my sight.”

Sabrina Reyes was scolded until tears streamed down her face, her voice choking. “Ethan, how can you treat me like this? I’m still pregnant!”

My mother-in-law spoke up in her defense too. “That’s right. Sabrina’s carrying three grandchildren! She has to be treated like she’s made of glass now!”

Ethan didn’t even spare them a glance, warning them coldly. “I don’t care what’s in her belly. This house was left to me by my grandfather, and the deed is in my name. If you dare say one more word that upsets my wife, then get out this instant. And don’t blame me for turning on you. Isn’t that right, Diane?”

All this time, my husband had always called her “Mom.” For him now to coldly call her by her first name, Diane, was enough to show just how angry he truly was.

My mother-in-law was so frightened her face went pale, completely flustered. She knew very well that years ago, Ethan’s grandfather, wary of her as the stepmother, had left her not a single cent of anything connected to her. Even my father-in-law had inherited nothing. The entire company had been handed to Ethan.

Whether they stayed or went was entirely his to decide, so she didn’t dare offend him.

My mother-in-law stammered, trying to say something. “Ethan, listen to me—”

But Ethan didn’t bother to respond. He decisively pulled me out of the house and took me straight to the hospital. While we waited for the results, I was so anxious I couldn’t sit still.

Ethan, by contrast, was very calm, and even comforted me gently. “Don’t worry too much. No matter what, I’m here.”

I looked at him and suddenly asked, “You’re over thirty too. Don’t you feel anxious about wanting a child?”

Ethan pinched my cheek lightly and smiled tenderly.

“Of course I want a child. But I only want one you give birth to. If you can’t have children, then honestly, I’ve lost interest in being a father altogether.”

“In fact, on the way here, I already thought it through. All these years, watching you suffer over the question of children has pained me deeply. If it doesn’t work out this time, I’ll get a vasectomy. That way you’ll never have to grieve over this again.”

Hearing his words, I was so moved I couldn’t speak.

I really was so lucky to have met someone who loved me this deeply. And luckily, heaven did not let me down in the end. This time, I really was pregnant.

It was just that, because my health was so poor, I needed to stay on bed rest to keep the baby.

The news that I was pregnant soon reached the main house, and my mother-in-law and Sabrina Reyes immediately grew restless.

I watched through the surveillance camera as Sabrina Reyes ground her teeth, cursing me and the baby in my belly.

“How can that wretch be allowed to carry a bastard child! If she gives birth first, what becomes of the baby in my belly?”

“Ethan was already so bewitched by her he’s lost his head. Even if I have a child, as long as that little mongrel exists, he won’t love my child at all!”

My mother-in-law began teaching her vicious schemes.

“Then make him love you!”

“That wretch has to stay in bed to keep the baby, doesn’t she? Her body certainly isn’t fit for intimacy. Ethan’s a man in his prime. You just keep appearing in front of him. I don’t believe he can hold out.”

Hearing this, Sabrina Reyes didn’t feel the slightest thing was wrong. On the contrary, she treated the woman’s words as gospel.

“Diane, you treat me even better than my own mother!”

“Don’t worry. If I can marry Ethan in the future, I’ll definitely have him give you lots of money!”

Then the two of them embraced, talking sweetly, looking for all the world like a real mother and daughter. Throughout it all, Ethan had been watching the camera too.

Hearing every word of their wicked calculations, he curled his lip in a cold smile. “So affectionate now, like real mother and daughter. I just wonder if they’ll still be this sweet once they learn she’s pregnant with ‘Mom’s’ husband’s child.”

I turned to look at him and blinked.

Honestly, I was curious too!

I have to admit, those two really did move fast.

The very next day, my mother-in-law used the excuse of “caring for me during my pregnancy” to show up at the house carrying bags large and small.

“You two struggled so many years to finally have a child. I absolutely have to take good care of you.”

“And conveniently, Sabrina’s pregnant too, so the two of you can chat and share experiences. It’s easy for me to look after you both, so I brought her along.”

Her words sounded perfectly reasonable and righteous, without a single opening to argue against.

For a moment, I truly couldn’t find any reason to refuse.

Mrs. Vance, the housekeeper who had looked after me for years, quietly pulled me aside and asked in a low voice, “Ma’am, are she and Miss Sabrina planning to stay for a long time?”

Before I could open my mouth, my husband answered for me. “Don’t worry. They won’t be here long. Before too long, the two of them will be packing up and getting out.”

The moment Sabrina Reyes moved in, she couldn’t sit still.

When she saw Ethan get up at five in the morning to personally go to the kitchen and prepare a nutritious breakfast for me, she looked ready to explode with rage.

He carefully set the food in front of me and even fed me gently, spoonful by spoonful.

Watching me be loved and cared for like that, her face went pale, and she nearly fainted from anger.

Right after, she started acting coy with Ethan. “Ethan, my hands hurt so much today. Could you feed me too?”

Ethan just shot her a cold glance, his voice indifferent as a splash of cold water. “If your hands hurt, best to just cut them off. That way they’ll never hurt again for the rest of your life.”

The serious expression with which he delivered something so absurd made me burst out laughing.

Sabrina Reyes, eyes brimming with tears, put on a pitiful air, but she didn’t dare blame Ethan, so she immediately turned her anger on me.

“Maddie, what are you so smug about? Ethan and I grew up together. We teased each other since childhood, and our bond is deep. I don’t need you standing here gloating!”

“And another thing. You’re pregnant, but you carry on like you’re about to give birth any second. What if in the end you can’t deliver? Won’t all this joy have been for nothing?”

Hearing her so brazenly curse me to miscarry, the fury in me flared up at once. I sprang to my feet and raised my hand to slap her across the face.

To my surprise, Ethan reached out and stopped me. “Honey, you mustn’t raise your hand.”

I was a little stunned, and felt a flicker of disappointment that he’d held me back.

Sabrina Reyes immediately turned smug, her eyes lighting up. “I knew it. You still have feelings for me, don’t you?”

But the very next second, she heard the reply that struck her dumb. “You’re pregnant. Moving around roughly could easily affect the baby. Just sit there and let me handle it for you.”

Before I could even react, Ethan turned and slapped Sabrina Reyes hard across the face.

The smile hadn’t even faded from her face before that slap left her dizzy and reeling.

She froze in place, eyes welling with tears, staring at Ethan in disbelief, unable to utter a single word.

My mother-in-law immediately rushed over and threw her arms around her, scolding Ethan heartbrokenly. “How could you hit a woman? Is that any way for a man to behave?”

Ethan let out a cold laugh and looked at the two of them icily.

“Not a man? How funny. Only those who can’t protect their own wife and child are unworthy of being called men.”

“Today she dared to open her mouth and curse my child. I only taught her a small lesson. But if there’s a next time, I won’t let it go so easily.”

Then he shot her a contemptuous glance, returned to the table, and went on feeding me as if nothing had happened.

Sabrina Reyes wept, clutching her belly, her face a mess of tears.

She completely lost control, sobbing and stammering. “But — but Ethan, the baby in my belly is also—”

My mother-in-law panicked and hurriedly clapped a hand over her mouth, afraid she’d let something slip and ruin the whole plan. Only then did Sabrina Reyes come to her senses and shut her mouth, sitting there weeping quietly.

And seeing her pitiful state, I didn’t feel the slightest bit of sympathy.

Because hadn’t she brought all of this on herself?

If I hadn’t happened to discover her and my mother-in-law’s scheme that day, then right now the baby in her belly might really have been my husband’s.

And my family would likely have been shattered long ago.