“Okay, will you call me Dad now?”
Zachary wanted so much to hear the children hail him as their father. Never before in his life had he gone to this length to please anyone.
These days, he had his office lined with books on parenting, and invested time and effort whenever possible to research into how to interact with children.
All that work just to convince these three little imps to willingly acknowledge him.
“I don’t want to…” Ellie pouted.
Robbie and Jamie rescinded their own attempts when they saw their sister expressed her unwillingness.
“Is something wrong?” Zachary asked cautiously.
It could very well be the first time he had tried to be careful about what he said.
“Dad doesn’t sound nice.” Ellie tilted her head innocently. “I prefer Daddy.”
“Yes. Yes…” Jamie went along and said. “If we address our mother as Mommy, we should also call you Daddy.”
“Then Daddy it is,” Robbie declared with finality.
and Ellie concurred
between themselves before they looked to Charlotte, and
them opened their
hail him,
Even Mrs. Berry got
Charlotte merely smiled silently.
hand like an orchestral conductor. “One,
“Daddy——”
were amplified loud and clear when they
almost melted. He then
the way Charlotte did, but he did not know
“Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy…”
around Zachary as they kept calling, and even snuggled
her slumber and beat her wings until she
fiery passion, he was
is just
had Mrs. Berry smiling
was
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