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 had drifted off to sleep. Josie

dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground, where it

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

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

wasn’t a

present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and

not a

wolf?” She was taken

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

to find a topic, so she told him about Laura’s reaction. “I don’t think Laura is

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 you were

Josie was choked up.

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

gaze, meeting her

instance?”

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

averting her gaze, “Arnold

was talking about him leaving

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