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

the half-smoked cigarette to the

by his side, momentarily at a loss for words. “Not bad. You’ve been taking care of her. You must

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

it wasn’t a hardship. The

was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and said, “Grape mentioned she

chuckled softly. “It’s not a dog. It’s a wolf

wolf?” She

cause harm to anyone. For now,

seemed to half-understand those words. She strived to find a topic, so she told him about Laura’s reaction. “I don’t think Laura is that kind

felt the urge to smoke again, but he held back. “Were you really that close to her? Then why didn’t you tell her

Josie was choked up.

understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to

gaze, meeting

instance?”

deeply into his soft, pitiful

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

was talking about him leaving

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