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.

in the morning, her parents were still asleep.

she had a rare weekend off, their paths hardly crossed. But

up to help, she could finally afford to

her position of power had created a distance. It had

this, Elora reached for her mother's arm

I leaned on my mom." The simple gesture stirred something

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

But in the blink of an eye, you've grown up. You've become my pillar

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

with regret. "I saw how

The only thing I could do was take care of the house,

warmth of her mother's embrace. It

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