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.

decision, but what’s done is

It’s not your fault.

blame yourself,

gaze downward,

before tears welled in her eyes and

nagging thought persisted that she could have altered the course of

her in a tight embrace as they

gone, they both understood the pain and

sobbed softly, her voice

still hurts,”

soothing words of

embrace was his wife, and they were meant

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

tears, Brantley’s own sadness

sternness, he hadn’t

him that he,

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