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.

justifying her decision, but what’s done is done,

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

her gaze downward, meeting

moment before

she could have altered the course

a tight embrace as they both

they both understood the pain and found comfort

her voice choked with

hurts,”

soothing words

a profound realization that the person in his embrace was his wife, and they

unable to sleep, ventured to their door

tears, Brantley’s own sadness

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected her

he, too, had

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