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.

her parents were still asleep.

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

her cousins stepping up to help, she could finally afford

had created a distance. It had made

for her mother's arm

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

wrapped an arm around her daughter's shoulders, a smile tugging at her

out a quiet sigh. "I used to think of you as my little girl. But in

somber. "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

regret. "I saw how

couldn't do anything to help. The only thing I could do was take care of the house, make sure you had one less

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

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