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 was exhausted, and before she knew it, she had drifted off to

saw her, his fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground, where it

You’ve been taking care of her. You must

managed to maintain his composure, no longer as emotionally expressive as he

a hardship.

in the air.

“It’s not a dog. It’s a wolf

wolf?” She

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

words. She strived to find a topic, so she

the streetlight fell upon her porcelain-white earlobe. Dexter felt the urge to smoke again, but he held back. “Were you

Josie was choked up.

point of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to considering many

lowered his gaze, meeting her eyes.

instance?”

was taken aback, falling deeply into his soft, pitiful

the first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said

talking about him leaving the world

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