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.

had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with a small blanket before she quietly opened the car door and

dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground, where it was snuffed out. “How are

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

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

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

present in the air. She cleared her throat

a dog. It’s a

She was taken

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

She strived to find a topic, so she told him about Laura’s reaction.

from the 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.

“I refrained from telling her

gaze,

instance?”

deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For instance?

first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night

was talking about him leaving the world

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