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 sympathy for the

birth to Laura and entrusted her

found herself in an unfamiliar environment,

comforting words to Laura, Mark requested that she pass the phone to Paul’s parents where he talked with them for a

that Laura was having trouble falling asleep at

that they would take good care of

good night, a sense of sorrow

family’s warmth since childhood

the phone, feeling a surge of

he knew that Cecilia felt

cigarette and

Cecilia was

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