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.

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

to the ground, where it was snuffed out. "How are

of her. You must be exhausted from these past few days." Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ

to maintain his composure, no longer as emotionally expressive as

well, so it wasn't a hardship. The

lingering scent of smoke was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and said, "Grape mentioned she found a puppy?" Dexter chuckled

She was taken

cause harm to anyone. For now,

she told him about Laura's reaction. "I

the urge to smoke again, but he held back. "Were you really that

Josie was choked up.

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

his gaze, meeting her

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

her gaze, "Arnold said that

talking about him leaving the world

gaze. Josie swiftly grabbed his

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