With tear-filled eyes, she looked at the receding back of the high and mighty man, responding hopelessly. "Fine, I'll go. You don't need the child anyway, and you certainly don't need me, this troublesome fake wife. Keep the marital home for yourselves. I'll just leave."

Tears blurred her vision as she turned and ran out of the courtyard.

Hearing her shoes crunching rapidly away on the gravel driveway, Samuel turned round and raised his hand, wanting to call out to ...