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 time she left for work in the morning, her parents were still asleep. When she came home at night, they had already

off, their paths hardly crossed. But back then, she was too busy even for weekends at

up to help, she could

a distance. It had made

mother's arm and rested her head on her

long time since I leaned on my mom." The simple gesture stirred something deep in Mrs.

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

a quiet sigh. "I used to think of you as my little girl. But in the blink of an eye, you've grown up. You've

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

heavy with 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

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

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