My MIL Gave Me a Necklace Made of Tiny Baby Bottles and Pacifiers Knowing I Couldn't Have Children – What My FIL Did Next Silenced the Room

Thomas said, "Dad?"

Matthew raised one hand.

Someone gasped as tiny plastic bottles and pacifiers scattered across the table.

"No, son. Let me handle this."

Susan's eyes widened.

"Matthew, don't."

He cut the string.

Susan screamed.

Matthew dropped the cut cord into the velvet box.

Someone gasped as tiny plastic bottles and pacifiers scattered across the table.

One bounced off my plate.

Another rolled under Thomas's chair.

A pink rattle landed in the frosting.

"What are you doing?" Susan shouted.

"That cost me almost two hundred dollars!"

Matthew dropped the cut cord into the velvet box.

"Ending the joke."

"That cost me almost two hundred dollars!"

He stared at her.

"That's what you're worried about?"

"Dad, what is going on?"

Susan stopped.

No one moved.

Then Thomas said, "Dad, what is going on?"

Matthew looked at him.

His face had gone pale.

"Matthew, don't."

"I knew about it."

Thomas frowned.