Grape nodded emphatically, then suddenly whispered, “Mommy, Daddy really loves you.”

Josie was taken aback. “Do you know what love is?”

“I don’t know, but I know he’s deeply in love with you.”

The child’s words were disjointed, spilling out without rhyme or reason. Josie didn’t pay it any mind.

Out of the blue, Grape asked, “Mommy, can you love Daddy?”

Josie paused once again, instinctively glancing at the figure outside. Love him?

“Why?” Josie asked.

“I want the two of you to be together, just like before in the big house, both of you loving me together.

Before, Josie never thought much about being from a single-parent family. It wasn’t until then that she realized the profound warmth a complete family could bring to a child’s upbringing.

For a moment, she found it incredibly difficult to respond.

it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with a small blanket before she

fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground, where it was snuffed out.

by his side, momentarily at a loss for words. “Not bad. You’ve been taking care of her. You must be exhausted from these

no longer as emotionally expressive

raised her well, so it wasn’t a hardship. The

seemed to half-understand the words. The lingering scent of smoke was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and said, “Grape mentioned she

softly. “It’s not a dog.

She was

timid wolf. It doesn’t cause harm to anyone. For now, it

to find a topic, so she

earlobe. Dexter felt the urge to smoke again, but he held back. “Were you really that close

Josie was choked up.

they hadn’t reached the point of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling

lowered his gaze,

instance?”

was taken aback, falling deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze.

looked at him, for the first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night I left, you also wanted

talking about him

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