Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Chapter 4273

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 at night,

a rare weekend off, their paths hardly crossed. But

with her cousins stepping up to help, she could

position of power had created a distance. It had made her

arm

voice softened. "It's been a long time since I leaned on my mom." The simple gesture stirred

her daughter's shoulders, a smile tugging at her lips. "And it's been a long time since I've

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

When your grandparents passed, everything fell on you. If we had been stronger, maybe you wouldn't have had to carry so much at such a young

regret. "I saw how tired you were, how hard it was

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

of her mother's embrace. It reminded her of when she

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