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.

don’t blame

gaze downward,

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

persisted that she could have

a tight embrace as they both succumbed

the pain and found comfort in each other’s

her voice choked with

hurts,” she

offered soothing words

person in his embrace was his wife, and

unable to sleep, ventured to their door

tears, Brantley’s

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected

him that he, too, had lost

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