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.

she was exhausted, and before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with

to the ground,

bad. You’ve

managed to maintain his composure, no longer as emotionally expressive as he was when he was at

wasn’t a hardship.

a dog. It’s a

She

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

she told him about Laura’s reaction. “I don’t think Laura is that kind of

streetlight fell upon her porcelain-white earlobe. Dexter felt the urge to smoke again, but he held back. “Were you really that close to her? Then why didn’t you tell her where

Josie was choked up.

of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to

his gaze, meeting her

instance?”

falling deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze.

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

him leaving the world

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