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,

cast her gaze downward, meeting his

for a moment before tears welled in

she could

N G E L A ‘s L I B

a tight embrace as they both

they both understood the

softly, her

still hurts,”

soothing words

the person in his embrace

sleep, ventured to their

tears,

he

on him that he, too,

back his tears and said

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