I accidentally overheard what my mother-in-law was saying to her friends and poured the salad on her head.

It was my mother-in-law’s anniversary. I went there to help with cooking.

By five o’clock, the guests arrived. From the conversations, I realized they were her friends. She sat them at the table and asked them to bring the dishes. Suddenly, I heard one of the women lean over to my mother-in-law and whisper:

— Is this your daughter-in-law? How long have you been married? Five years?

— Yes, — my mother-in-law replied briefly.

I stood at the door and held my breath.

— Are you determined? — the friend asked quietly.

After I heard what they were talking about, I went out to the guests with a bowl of salad and poured the entire contents on her head… I explain what happened in the first comment 

— Yes, — I heard my mother-in-law’s firm answer. — I don’t want them to be together…

— A child will come, and everything will be fine. You’re not going to break up the family, are you? — the guest asked cautiously.

— There won’t be a child, — my mother-in-law laughed. — I’ve taken care of that.

My heart started pounding louder than ever before.

— I go to their house when she’s not there. She takes pills to get pregnant faster… So I switched them for birth control pills. They’re in her plastic container — all the same shape. I dump the old ones out and put in mine…

When I heard this, I felt the ground slip from beneath my feet. We had been trying for five years to conceive, and we just couldn’t.

— I’ve already been telling my son: a childless woman isn’t for you, — my mother-in-law continued. — A year, and he’ll be free.

I struggled to hold back the tears.

— Darling, bring us the salad! — my mother-in-law shouted from the room.

I took the bowl of salad. When I entered the living room, I noticed my mother-in-law becoming suspicious.

I slowly walked up to her… and poured the entire bowl of salad right on her head.

— I heard everything, — I said in a trembling but confident voice.

There was a deathly silence in the room. My mother-in-law’s friends gasped. I turned around and walked out.

Later, my husband found out everything. And I’m grateful to fate that he didn’t give in to his mother’s intrigues.