Raphael approached and tenderly dabbed at her tears with a tissue.

Softly, he inquired, “Are you thinking about your mother?”

Setting aside the photo album she found in her parents’ home, Elissa composed herself.

She nodded, her voice heavy with grief.

“I can’t shake the thought.

If I had persuaded my mother to stay that day, would things have turned out differently?”

Raphael knelt beside her, tenderly placing a hand on her belly.

After a pause, he spoke up softly.

“But if she had stayed, she might have lived her whole Life in resentment and anger, never finding true closure, let alone happiness.

I’m not justifying her decision, but what’s done is done, and we can’t change it.

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame yourself,

cast her gaze downward,

stared at him for a moment before tears

persisted that she could have altered the

‘s L I B R A R

enveloped her in a tight embrace as they both succumbed to

the

her voice choked with

still hurts,”

offered soothing words of

his embrace was his wife, and they were meant to support each other

sleep, ventured to their

heartrending tears, Brantley’s own sadness

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected her

on him that he, too,

blinked back his

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