“Robbie…”

“Jamie…”

“Ellie…”

When they spotted them, the crowd of students started calling out the children’s names. The cacophony made Zachary’s head throb with pain.

Instinctively, he narrowed his eyes, which made him seem more aggressive and annoyed than he actually felt.

Instantly, the students stepped away, too frightened to approach the kids.

 

A girl in a ponytail was so alarmed that she burst into noisy tears at the sight of Zachary’s face.

“Blossom, don’t be scared! He isn’t a bad person.” Ellie kicked her little legs, signaling to Zachary that he should put her down. Running over to the crying girl, she explained hurriedly, “He’s my…”

 

“I’m their father!” Zachary interrupted hastily.

He thought it would sound rather scandalous if he introduced himself as their mother’s boyfriend. Besides, the students were too young to know about this sort of thing.

He thought it would be best if he stepped forward bravely and announced his true identity to the world.

father now, and he would remain their father for the rest of their

look at him, stunned. They

a liking to him

supposed to call him

too

horror at Zachary, his mind running at a mile an hour. He wasn’t a stupid kid by any means, and he was quickly analyzing Zachary’s words to

wrongly? Or was Uncle Zack merely

Her eyes were as big as strawberries as she gazed open-mouthed at Zachary, scarcely believing what she

triplets started coming to school, they had never seen their father. Even the triplets themselves didn’t seem to know who

of nowhere and claimed himself

was tall and had a brutal

and the medical staff were gazing at Zachary in

piece of startling news they had received from Zachary this morning, and

to send

he was, in

from being Charlotte’s boyfriend to being

piece of news would have spread across the globe

“Daddy, Daddy, burp—”

awake. She gave a loud, sudden squawk

quickly snapped the triplets out of their

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