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.

morning, her parents were still asleep. When she came

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

to help, she could finally afford

had created a distance. It had made her parents

arm and rested her head

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

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

as my little girl. But in the blink of an eye, you've grown up. You've

father and... we weren't able to help you. When your grandparents passed, everything fell on you. If we had been stronger, maybe you

"I saw how tired you were, how hard it was for

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

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

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