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.

before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her with a small blanket before she quietly opened

saw her, his fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to

words. "Not bad. You've been taking care of her. You must be exhausted from these past few days."

longer as emotionally expressive as he was when

it wasn't a hardship. The focus is

cleared her throat lightly and said, "Grape mentioned she

wolf?" She was taken

cause harm to anyone. For now,

those words. She strived to find a topic, so she told him about Laura's reaction. "I don't think Laura is that kind of

from the streetlight fell upon her porcelain-white earlobe. Dexter felt the urge 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.

point of truly understanding each other. "I refrained from telling her due

his gaze, meeting her eyes. "For

aback, falling deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For instance? For

not averting her gaze, "Arnold said that on the night I left, you also

was talking about him

question was raised, Dexter unexpectedly avoided her gaze. Josie swiftly grabbed his wrist. "Look

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