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 yourself,

her gaze downward, meeting

him for a moment before tears welled in her eyes and spilled

could have altered the course

A ‘s L I B R A R

embrace as they both

understood the pain and found comfort in each

her voice

still hurts,” she

offered soothing words

in his embrace was his wife,

ventured to their door in

heartrending tears,

her earlier sternness, he hadn’t expected

that he,

blinked back his tears

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