"Eli, you're in Ashbrook, right? Why don't you visit him in the hospital?” Sophia suggested tentatively. “Whatever you decide, I just want both of you to be okay."

Eliana kept quiet, but not for a lack of words. Her face was already streaked with hot tears while listening to Sophia. She was quite literally rendered speechless.

Everything she'd been through lately came flooding back, and how she painfully missed her daughter. She couldn’t contain it any longer. ...