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.

work in the morning, her parents were still asleep. When

paths hardly crossed. But back then, she was too busy even

up to help, she could

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

her mother's arm and rested

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

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

"I used to think of you as my little girl. But in the

grandparents passed, everything fell

regret. "I saw how

do anything to help. The only thing I could do was take care of the house, make sure you had one less

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

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