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.

justifying her decision, but what’s done is done,

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

cast her gaze downward, meeting his

moment before tears welled in

thought persisted that she could have altered

in a tight embrace as they

they both understood the pain and

softly, her voice

hurts,” she

soothing words of

had a profound realization that the person in his embrace was his wife, and they were meant to support each other

sleep, ventured to their

heartrending tears, Brantley’s own

he hadn’t expected

he, too, had lost

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