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.

blame

her gaze downward,

before tears welled in her eyes

could have altered the course

G E L A ‘s L I B R

embrace

the pain and

her voice

still hurts,”

soothing words

the person in his embrace was his wife, and

their

tears, Brantley’s

he hadn’t expected her

on him that he, too,

blinked back his tears and

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