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.

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

the half-smoked cigarette to the ground, where it

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

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

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

still present in the air. She

chuckled softly. “It’s not a dog.

She was

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

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

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

Josie was choked up.

each other. “I refrained from telling her

lowered his gaze, meeting

instance?”

deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For instance? For instance,

first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that

was talking about him leaving the world

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