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

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

her gaze downward, meeting his

at him for a moment before

could have altered the course of

her in a tight embrace as

understood the pain and found comfort

her

hurts,” she

soothing

his embrace was his wife, and they were

ventured to their door in the quiet of

tears, Brantley’s own sadness

earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected her to

him that he, too, had

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