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.

late. Grape mentioned she was exhausted, and before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with a small blanket before she quietly opened 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 past

emotionally expressive

well, so it wasn’t a hardship. The focus is on

the words. The lingering scent of smoke was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and

not a dog.

wolf?” She was taken

cause harm to anyone. For now, it only

a topic, so she told him about

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

Josie was choked up.

reached the point of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to considering many factors,” Josie

his gaze, meeting her

instance?”

his soft, pitiful

looked at him, for the first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold

talking about him

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