Elissa asked Raphael to go to sleep after a while because he had work the next day.

Softly, she told him, “You should sleep now.

I’ll just sit here for a little bit.”

Raphael refused to leave her alone, leaning against the headboard and holding her in his arms.

He gently patted her back, making her feel calmer by the second.

This time, she slept soundly through the rest of the night.

When morning came, Elissa woke up to an empty bed.

Raphael was not beside her.

She heard muffled voices coming from the living room, mentioning something about a deceased person and a third party, though she couldn’t make out the details.

Elissa quickly threw on some clothes and went out.

In the living room, several men in with badges stood conversing with Raphael.

When they noticed Elissa, one of them asked, “Is this their daughter?”

turning pale as a bad

her gaze to Raphael for

a long moment, she couldn’t find

over, and put an arm around

in a very low, gentle voice, he

your mother nor two others

he told her the

Elissa’s face turned ashen.

long time for her to process the news, her lips trembling as she said, “But she

made me

she suddenly be

the people in the other car my

Raphael fall silent, but

celebrities, and a scandal like this would be

consideration, one of the men said, “Mrs. Jones, perhaps you and Mr. Jones

had left behind a

might end up in foster homes or even

be living on the street, it’s nothing

Jones, please do think

course, it’s just

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