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.

what’s done is done, and

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame

her gaze

moment before tears welled in her eyes and spilled

persisted that she could have altered the course

embrace as

parents gone, they both understood the

sobbed softly, her voice

hurts,” she

offered soothing

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

Brantley, unable to sleep, ventured to their

heartrending tears, Brantley’s own

he hadn’t

dawned on him that he,

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