ELISavannah’s nails scraped uselessly against the polished wooden table as she slid downward, falling heavily onto her knees on the cold marble floor. Her silk dress bunched up around her legs, her golden hair spilling wildly over her face. She reached out with trembling, hands, trying to grab my trousers, trying to touch my shoes, weeping hysterically."Eli! Please, look at me!" Savannah sobbed, her voice high, shrill, and harsh with panic. "Think about Eliana! Think about our daughter! Think about the eighteen years we spent raising her in this house! You can't just throw me away like this over a piece of paper!"I pulled my legs back with cold disgust, stepping away from her grasping fingers. The sight of her kneeling on the floor, pathetic and groveling, didn't move a single muscle in my heart."Do not speak her name," I said, my deep voice cutting through her hysterical crying. "I tolerated your wasteful, bitter existence for twenty years because I believed I owed that girl a co
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