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“What aren’t you telling me?” Savannah’s chest constricted as icy fear coursed through her veins. She yearned for answers yet dreaded what those answers might reveal. Her lips trembled uncontrollably while tears welled in her eyes, clinging to her lashes before falling.
“Where is my daughter? Is she recovering in the adjacent room?” She flung aside her hospital blankets and struggled to swing her legs out of bed. “I must go to her immediately…”
“Savannah!” Neville caught her shoulders firmly, his brow creased with anguish, words failing him completely.
“Why are you preventing me from seeing her?” Savannah’s emotional control hung by the thinnest thread. She wrenched herself free from his restraining hands, her voice quaking with mounting hysteria. “I demand to know about Elissa, yet you remain silent! She isn’t your biological child, so her welfare means nothing to you, does it?”
“Savannah, you know that’s completely unfair—”
“It’s the truth!” Savannah pulled away from him entirely and faced Hadley with a desperately bright smile. “Please ignore his evasions! Tell me where Elissa is! Lead me to her this instant!”
“Mrs. Brown…” Hadley’s hands grew slick with nervous perspiration. The instant she attempted to speak, tears cascaded down her cheeks in unstoppable torrents. “Elissa… we’re still continuing our desperate search for her!”
The words hit Savannah like a physical blow.
She became a statue of shock, her eyes stretched wide with disbelief. Arctic coldness invaded her very soul, rendering her completely motionless. She shook her head in violent denial, refusing to accept this nightmare. “No, no, this cannot be happening… This is impossible…”
Without warning, she seized Hadley’s hands with desperate strength. “If your rescue teams located me successfully, why haven’t they found Elissa?”
“Mrs. Brown…” Hadley wept.
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Openly, her voice fracturing with grief, Hadley cried, “Forgive me, please forgive me for bringing this news…”
Savannah released Hadley’s hands as if burned, grasping her temples while her body wavered dangerously.
“Savannah!” Neville lunged forward to steady her collapsing form. “You must prioritize your own health!”
“My own health?” Savannah released a bitter laugh through her tears, her voice splintering with pain. “What significance does my health hold now? My precious daughter! She’s barely begun her life! And she carries my unborn grandchild within her! She… she…”
Before she could complete her anguished words, overwhelming sorrow consumed her entirely. Her eyelids fluttered closed as consciousness abandoned her, sending her collapsing into Neville’s waiting embrace.
“Savannah!” Neville’s voice cracked with panic.
“Mrs. Brown!” Hadley cried out in alarm.
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