Mark grasped his phone, which remained on silent, its screen flashing incessantly.

Instead of immediately answering, he glanced towards the study’s door, through which Cecilia had disappeared.

A lump formed in Mark’s throat.

He then pressed the answer button and Laura’s voice came through.

The young girl sounded a bit uneasy.

Mark lit a cigarette and held it delicately between his fingers.

He asked softly, “It’s late.

Why aren’t you asleep?”

quietly,

surge of

Laura and entrusted her

in an unfamiliar environment,

Mark requested that she pass the phone to Paul’s parents where he talked with them for

then did Paul’s parents learn that Laura was having

they would take

a

warmth since childhood and now couldn’t often see

up the phone, feeling

knew that Cecilia

extinguished his cigarette and returned to the

enough, Cecilia

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