The normal reaction everyone expected to see was Teddy being nervous, and desperate to explain himself. Instead, he remained calm like a refined scholar, facing Sienna and Elias.
The lawyers pressed their arguments. Teddy's lawyer claimed the marriage could not be salvaged, citing social ridicule and personal fear. Gene's lawyer argued that she had given her strength, her loyalty, her labor and now being discarded because she did not fit the city's image of a noble wife.
Sienna shook her head.
"I have never undermined the sacrifices Gene made for me and my family." Teddy chimed in, "I had no idea that she was the reason for the exoneration of my deceased father. But, this doesn't change facts as they are. It is not true that I never loved her. I was fond of her once upon a time, and we lived in a small bubble with just the two of us. Gene popped the bubble when she went to the fox lord and knocked over the first domino which brought my family back to its old status."
