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, meeting

him for a moment before tears welled in her

could have altered the

E L A ‘s L I B R A

a tight embrace as they both succumbed to

parents gone, they both understood the pain and found comfort in each other’s

her voice

hurts,” she

soothing words of

that moment, he had a profound realization that the person in his embrace was his wife,

their door in the

Elissa’s heartrending tears, Brantley’s own sadness

he hadn’t

him that he, too,

back his tears and

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