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 sleep. Josie carefully covered her

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

his side, momentarily at a loss for words. “Not bad. You’ve

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

raised her well, so it wasn’t a hardship. The

lingering scent of smoke was still present in the

a dog. It’s

wolf?” She

cause harm to anyone.

words. She strived to find a topic, so she told him

he held back. “Were you really that close to her? Then why didn’t you tell her where you were

Josie was choked up.

they hadn’t reached the point of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to considering

gaze,

instance?”

into his soft, pitiful gaze. For

first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that on the

about him leaving

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