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 is done, and we can’t change

It’s not your fault.

blame

cast her gaze

at him for a moment before tears welled in her eyes and

persisted that she could have

tight embrace as

understood the pain and found comfort

sobbed softly, her voice choked

still hurts,” she

offered soothing words

in his embrace was his wife, and they

to sleep, ventured to their door in the quiet of the

Elissa’s heartrending tears, Brantley’s

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t

he, too,

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