When the doctor told Dahlia that her baby had died in an accident five years ago, she couldn't understand why she felt no pain, no sorrow. Instead, she felt incomplete, as if a void had opened within her. It was a gaping chasm in her heart that she yearned to fill, even though she didn't know what she was searching for.
Now, hearing a child call her "Mom" seemed to fill that emptiness almost instantly, though she couldn't explain why or how.
Perhaps it was because she felt a deep sympathy for him when he shared that he had never seen his mother since birth and was still waiting for her to return.
"Is that yummy? Do you want another slice?" Dahlia asked the boy. He nodded eagerly, and they both laughed.
She gave him another slice of cheesecake, and he ate it quietly. They had met earli
