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.

done

It’s not your fault.

blame

cast her gaze downward, meeting

moment before tears welled in her

thought persisted that she could have altered the course of

a tight embrace as they both succumbed

understood the pain and

softly, her voice choked

hurts,” she

soothing words

embrace was his wife, and they were meant to support each other for

their

Elissa’s heartrending tears, Brantley’s

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected

he, too, had lost

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