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. When she came home at night, they had already gone

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

her cousins stepping up to help, she could finally afford

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

mother's arm and rested her

a long time since I leaned on my mom." The simple gesture

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

in the

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

saw how

I could do was take care of the house, make sure you had one

embrace. It reminded her of

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