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.

not justifying her decision, but what’s done is done, and

It’s not your fault.

blame yourself,

her gaze downward,

moment before tears welled in her eyes

thought persisted that she could have altered the

enveloped her in a tight embrace as they both

both understood the pain and found comfort in each

softly, her voice

hurts,” she

offered soothing words of

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

sleep, ventured to their door in

heartrending tears, Brantley’s own

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected her

him that he,

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