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.

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

paths hardly crossed. But

stepping up to help, she could finally afford to take weekends off

had created a distance. It had made her

arm

leaned on

an arm around her daughter's shoulders, a smile tugging at her lips. "And it's been

quiet sigh. "I used to think of you as my little girl. But in the blink of an eye,

grandparents passed, everything fell on you. If we had been stronger, maybe you wouldn't have had

heavy with regret. "I saw how tired you

do was take care of the house, make sure you had one less thing

into the warmth of her mother's embrace. It reminded

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