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 done, and we can’t change

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

cast her gaze downward,

for a moment before tears welled in her eyes

thought persisted that she could

in a tight embrace

their parents gone, they both understood the pain and found comfort in each

her voice choked with

still hurts,” she

soothing

embrace was his wife,

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

tears, Brantley’s own sadness

her earlier sternness, he

he, too, had

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