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

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

gaze downward, meeting his

for a moment before

could have altered the

enveloped her in a tight embrace as they

gone, they both understood the pain and found comfort

sobbed softly, her

still hurts,” she

offered soothing words

he had a profound realization that the person in his embrace was his wife,

to their door in the quiet of the

heartrending tears, Brantley’s

sternness, he hadn’t expected her to

him that he, too, had lost his

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