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“Your baby can wait forty minutes,” my mother hissed, ripping away my phone before locking me inside a windowless hotel storage room. Blood soaked my bridesmaid dress as my contractions slammed harder, while my sister’s wedding music thundered through the wall. I screamed until my throat tore—but the camera had already caught everything. And soon, so would the police.

“Your baby can wait forty minutes,” my mother hissed, ripping away my phone before locking me inside a windowless hotel storage room. Blood soaked my bridesmaid dress as my contractions slammed harder, while my sister’s wedding music thundered through the wall. I screamed until my throat tore—but the camera had already caught everything. And soon, so would the police.

by Geekrew Originals · Aug 3, 2026 · completed

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“Lila gets one wedding, Nora—your baby can wait forty minutes.” My mother said it while I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, bleeding through a pale blue bridesmaid dress, and gripping a makeup table so hard my fingernails split. For one stunned second, I thought I had misunderstood her.

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