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,

It’s not your fault.

blame yourself,

her gaze downward, meeting his

a moment before tears welled in

nagging thought persisted that she could have altered the course

tight embrace as

the pain and found comfort in

sobbed softly, her voice

hurts,” she

soothing words of

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

ventured to their door in the quiet of

heartrending tears, Brantley’s own sadness

sternness, he hadn’t expected her to

dawned on him that he, too, had lost

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