As Joana stirred from slumber the following morning, her thoughts entangled with a flurry of dreams featuring Elijah. The profound conversation they shared the previous evening solidified her realization - Elijah harbored no intention of accepting her as his wife. The palpable disparity in their social standing inherently precluded any semblance of a union.
Although the weight of this truth bore heavily on her heart, Joana recognized the necessity of departing at this juncture. Nurturing a child in a household where the father deemed her unworthy of even a fabricated public relationship was inconceivable to her. She staunchly refused to subject her child to an environment where Elijah coexisted with another woman. As dawn broke, Joana unequivocally understood that her time to depart was
