On our wedding anniversary, my husband put something in my glass, I decided to replace it with his sisters glass

On the evening of our wedding anniversary, we gathered around the dinner table, laughter softening the edges of time. My husband lifted his glass in a quiet toast, his smile almost reverent. I mirrored the gesture—but as the rim neared my lips, I caught a flicker of movement. He’d slipped something into my drink.

My skin prickled. Instinct surged. Without drawing attention, I swapped my glass with his sister’s.

Ten minutes. A clink of glasses. A chorus of “cheers.” Then, the collapse.

Gasps pierced the room. Chairs scraped back. His sister crumpled, unconscious.

Chaos bloomed. My husband’s face contorted. “She wasn’t supposed to drink that!” he blurted. “I switched the glasses!”

There it was. A confession, buried in panic. That poison was meant for me.

I didn’t speak. I went home. The air in the house felt colder than the night outside. He entered later as if nothing had ruptured.

“How are you?” he asked, masking dread with charm.

“I’m fine,” I said. And I was—for the first time in weeks, truly awake.

The next morning, I visited her in the hospital. Alive, but barely. Doctors called it a close brush with death. I called it fate, and a sharpened gut instinct.

That evening, he asked about her.

“She’ll recover,” I said. “I noticed the glasses weren’t where they started.”

His pulse faltered. “What do you mean?”

“Something to keep in mind—if I speak to the authorities.”

He didn’t sleep. I didn’t stop.

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