I had been sending 1.5 million pesos each month to my mother to take care of my wife after childbirth.

“A… Love… why are you home at this hour? I… I was just having lunch…

I didn’t say anything. I reached out and snatched the bowl from him.

And the moment I looked inside…

I felt my heart stop.

There was no normal food inside.

It was spoiled rice mixed with dried heads and fish bones, something that wouldn’t normally even be served to a person.

My whole body froze.

So…

Why did my wife have to eat something like that, in secret?

At that moment, a terrifying thought began to form in my mind…

The silence in the kitchen became so heavy that I could almost hear my own breathing.