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.

before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with a small blanket before she quietly opened

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

bad. You’ve been taking care of her.

his composure, no longer as emotionally expressive as he

a hardship. The

in the air.

not a dog. It’s

wolf?” She was taken

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

She strived to find a topic, so she told him about Laura’s reaction. “I

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

Josie was choked up.

“I refrained from telling her due to

gaze, meeting her

instance?”

into his soft, pitiful gaze. For

time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night I left, you also wanted to

him

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