My Water Broke, But He Chose Her First

Nine months pregnant, a wife calls her husband Rhys Abbott when her water breaks. He tells her to wait while he helps their neighbor Emily Fox park her car. Minutes pass; from the window she sees the car already parked, Rhys chatting and smiling with Emily. Calling again, she hears Emily thank him for offering to cook her birthday dinner, and Rhys dismiss her as crying wolf, saying if she cannot handle childbirth she is not fit to be a mother.

She records the call and the scene, then sends the files to her three brothers: a business tycoon, a top-tier lawyer, and a gym owner. Her eldest brother sends a doctor from downstairs to take her to the hospital. As they drive out, she sees Rhys drape the grey scarf she knitted him around Emily, who calls it cheap; he throws it into the slush. She blocks him everywhere.

She wonders when Rhys began looking at Emily that way, recalling eight years of devotion, and how he changed in the two months since Emily moved in.