Elora walked over and sat beside her mother.

Mrs. Ormond shifted uncomfortably. "Let's go outside. This is your bedroom. I shouldn't have come in without asking."

She felt like she had invaded her daughter's private space.

"Mom, don't be like that. We're mother and daughter-real mother and daughter,"

Elora said with a soft smile, sensing her mother's discomfort. "We're not strangers. You don't need permission to be here."

Maybe it was because Elora had been so caught up with work that she hadn't spent much time with her parents in a long while.

She left early, came home late. Some months, they barely even saw each other- despite living under the same roof.

time she left for work in the morning, her parents were still asleep. When she came home at night, they

rare weekend off, their paths hardly crossed. But back then, she

she could finally afford to

of power had created a distance.

for her mother's arm and rested her head on her

softened. "It's been a long time since I leaned on

shoulders, a smile tugging at her lips. "And it's

sigh. "I used to think of you as my little girl. But in the blink of an eye, you've grown up. You've

to help you. When your grandparents passed,

regret. "I saw how

thing I could do was take care of the house, make

let herself relax, melting into the warmth of her mother's embrace. It reminded her of when she was a child, when things

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