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.

exhausted, and before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with

his fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground, where it was snuffed

words. “Not bad. You’ve been taking care of her.

emotionally expressive as

well, so it wasn’t a hardship.

was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly

not a dog. It’s a wolf

wolf?” She was taken

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

so she told him about Laura’s reaction. “I don’t think

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.

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

his gaze, meeting her eyes.

instance?”

deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze.

her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night I

was talking about him

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