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.

still

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

she could finally afford to take

of power had created a distance. It had made her

mother's arm and

since I leaned on my mom."

an arm around her daughter's shoulders, a smile tugging at her lips. "And it's been a long time since I've

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

"Elora, have you ever blamed us? Your father 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

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

melting into the warmth of her mother's embrace. It reminded

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