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,

a surge of sympathy for the

Laura and entrusted her care to a

an unfamiliar environment,

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

Laura was having trouble falling asleep

that they would take

night, a

had been deprived of a family’s warmth since childhood and now couldn’t often

the phone, feeling a

he knew that Cecilia

extinguished his cigarette and returned to

Cecilia was still

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