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.

the morning, her parents were still asleep. When she came

a rare weekend off, their paths hardly crossed. But back then, she was

help, she could finally

of power had created a distance. It had made her parents cautious around

for her mother's arm and rested her head

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

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

of you as my little girl. But in the blink of an

help you. When your grandparents passed, everything fell on you. If we had

her voice heavy with regret. "I saw how tired you

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

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

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