Borrowed Life

"But I'm the children's father. I know I didn't protect you well before, which led to you fleeing from here and wandering in a foreign land. Can't you give me another chance?" Alaric asked.

His hot tears wet Valerie's shoulder.

'He cried...?' Valerie shuddered all over, her mind racing, feeling a twinge of sympathy.

She just let him hold her quietly, no longer struggling, as if silently comforting