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.

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

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

side, momentarily at a loss for words. “Not bad. You’ve been taking care

emotionally expressive as he was

it wasn’t a hardship. The

the words. The lingering scent of smoke was still present in

softly. “It’s not a dog.

wolf?” She

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

she told him about Laura’s reaction.

felt the urge to smoke again, but he held back. “Were you really

Josie was choked up.

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

lowered his gaze, meeting her eyes.

instance?”

deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For

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

about him leaving the world

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