She didn’t react.
Only once did a young guard spot her standing by the small ventilation window at midnight, murmuring something.
Perhaps Ana’s name.
When asked what she was saying, Carolina replied, “I was talking in my sleep.”
In the ninth month of her imprisonment, when everything seemed frozen in time, Carolina fainted in her cell.
The prison doctor examined her.
The result left everyone speechless. Carolina was sixteen weeks pregnant.
The fetus was stable.
Its heartbeat was distinct.
The entire prison was in shock.
How could a death row inmate, in solitary confinement, become pregnant?
Carolina remained unconscious.
Her hand rested on her stomach, as if her body were instinctively protecting it.
The prison immediately launched an internal investigation.
The warden ordered a review of all the CCTV footage.
And when the cameras revealed the truth…
no one in the room could utter a word.
