She didn’t want to like her father.

“Grape…” Josie held her, her words tinged with a hint of sorrow. “Don’t dislike Daddy…”

Adult matters should not involve children, after all.

Grape pursed her lips. “But Daddy… he doesn’t like me either.” Her tone could hardly conceal her sadness and despair.

Josie understood what Grape was thinking.

After all these years, she, as a mother, had ultimately failed her.

“If I have to choose between Mommy and Daddy, then I…” Grape’s eyes were filled with determination as she hugged Josie’s neck. “I choose Mommy…”

A warmth spread through Josie’s heart, and tears began to fall uncontrollably.

“Grape—” Josie held her quietly.

Little did she know, at that very moment, Dexter’s car had already pulled up at the door downstairs.

As the car engine turned off, the car window slid down, revealing the man’s profound profile. His brows were tightly knitted as if burdened with worries he couldn’t untangle.

The unfathomable eyes gazed at the house, illuminated by light.

Larry handed over the information

heart still ached slightly

It’s hard to imagine.

years, she had been living in a foreign

back first…” Dexter

things that he had to face

Larry expressed with some

Larry understood his meaning. Without delay, he opened the

stayed with Grape, coaxing the little girl to sleep

in Josie’s hands finally lessened. She gently laid the little one down on the large bed, looking at the face still marked with tear stains. An involuntary sense of remorse welled

owes you an

stealthily

Nightfall descended.

balcony. The evening breeze brought a hint of chill, causing the loose strands of hair at her temples to flutter in the wind. This awakened Josie

her gaze involuntarily settled on

to pound as if she had already

stare seemed as if it could see right through her. Overwhelmed, Josie

he manage to find

that moment, the phone in her pocket

was a call

his

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