PART 1:
At the funeral, I later found out that my husband, **Michael Carter**, showed no trace of grief.
“They both froze to death,” he said flatly. “That useless woman finally got what she deserved.”
Those words still replay in my mind like a curse.
Only hours before, I had been begging him to stop the argument and take me home. We were standing at the edge of a frozen cliff in **Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado**, surrounded by endless white silence. Then, without warning, he shoved me hard.
I fell into nothingness.
I remember screaming as the freezing wind swallowed every sound, reaching for anything that wasn’t there. High above, Michael looked down with an expression I will never forget—a calm smile that still haunts me.
“Don’t worry,” he called casually. “Neither you nor the baby will suffer long.”
Then everything turned white.
I hit a narrow ledge halfway down the cliff. Pain exploded through my body—broken ribs, a twisted wrist, blood spreading into the snow beneath me.
Instinctively, I wrapped my arms around my swollen belly.
“Please stay with me,” I whispered over and over. “Please don’t leave me.”