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.

knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered

Dexter saw her, his fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the

bad. You’ve been taking

his composure, no longer as emotionally

it wasn’t a

smoke was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and said,

“It’s not a dog. It’s

wolf?” She was taken

to anyone.

to half-understand those words. She strived to find a topic, so she told

her 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 you were during

Josie was choked up.

reached the point of truly understanding each other. “I

gaze, meeting her eyes.

instance?”

was taken aback, falling deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For instance? For

“Arnold said that

was talking about him leaving the

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