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.

but what’s done is done, and

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame

cast her gaze downward, meeting

for a moment before tears welled in her eyes and spilled

persisted that she could have altered the course

a tight embrace as they both succumbed

the pain and found comfort in each

softly, her voice choked with

still hurts,” she

offered soothing words of

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

ventured to their

tears, Brantley’s own

sternness, he hadn’t expected her

on him that he, too, had lost

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