Raphael approached and tenderly dabbed at her tears with a tissue.

Softly, he inquired, “Are you thinking about your mother?”

Setting aside the photo album she found in her parents’ home, Elissa composed herself.

She nodded, her voice heavy with grief.

“I can’t shake the thought.

If I had persuaded my mother to stay that day, would things have turned out differently?”

Raphael knelt beside her, tenderly placing a hand on her belly.

After a pause, he spoke up softly.

“But if she had stayed, she might have lived her whole Life in resentment and anger, never finding true closure, let alone happiness.

her decision, but what’s done is done, and we can’t

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

gaze

him for a moment before tears welled

could have

enveloped her in a tight embrace as they both

both understood the pain and

her voice choked

still hurts,”

offered soothing

moment, he had a profound realization that the person in his embrace was his wife, and they were

their door in the

heartrending tears, Brantley’s own

earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected her to

he, too, had lost

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