Grape nodded emphatically, then suddenly whispered, "Mommy, Daddy really loves you."

Josie was taken aback. "Do you know what love is?"

"I don't know, but I know he's deeply in love with you."

The child's words were disjointed, spilling out without rhyme or reason. Josie didn't pay it any mind.

Out of the blue, Grape asked, "Mommy, can you love Daddy?"

Josie paused once again, instinctively glancing at the figure outside. Love him?

"Why?" Josie asked.

"I want the two of you to be together, just like before in the big house, both of you loving me together."

Before, Josie never thought much about being from a single-parent family. It wasn't until then that she realized the profound warmth a complete family could bring to a child's upbringing.

For a moment, she found it incredibly difficult to respond.

she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully

loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground,

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to maintain his composure, no longer as emotionally expressive as he was

a hardship.

She cleared her throat lightly

wolf?" She was

to anyone. For now, it

so she told him about Laura's

to smoke again, but he held back. "Were you really that close to her? Then why didn't you tell her where you were during the two years you

Josie was choked up.

understanding each other. "I refrained

meeting

aback, falling deeply into his

first time not averting her gaze, "Arnold said that on the night

was talking about him leaving

unexpectedly avoided her gaze. Josie swiftly grabbed his wrist. "Look

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