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.

off to sleep. Josie

Dexter saw her, his fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the

bad. You’ve been taking care of

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

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

lingering scent of smoke was still present in the air. She cleared her

softly. “It’s not a dog. It’s a

She was

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

words. She strived to find a topic, so she told him about

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 during the two years you

Josie was choked up.

hadn’t reached the point of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to considering

gaze, meeting her eyes.

instance?”

taken aback, falling deeply into his soft,

her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night I left, you

about him leaving the

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