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.

and before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep.

to the ground, where it was snuffed out.

side, momentarily at a loss for words. “Not bad. You’ve been taking care of her. You

his composure, no longer as emotionally expressive as he was when he

a hardship. The focus is

scent of smoke was still present in the

“It’s not a dog. It’s a

wolf?” She was

doesn’t cause harm to anyone. For now, it only

topic, so she told him about

again, but he held back. “Were you really that close to her? Then why didn’t you tell her where you were during

Josie was choked up.

“I refrained from telling

gaze, meeting her

instance?”

falling deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For instance? For

the first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night I left, you also

about him leaving the

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