“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Robbie and Jamie rescinded their own attempts when they saw their sister expressed her unwillingness.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.

Ellie

exchanged looks between themselves before they looked

of them opened

for them to hail him, but

it up.” Even Mrs.

Charlotte merely smiled silently.

Ellie waved her hand like an orchestral

“Daddy——”

amplified loud and clear

then drew them into his

very much to kiss them the way Charlotte did, but he did not know

“Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy…”

around Zachary as they kept calling, and even snuggled close to smother him with

her wings until she landed on top of the man’s head. “Daddy,

passion, he was at a

is just

Mrs. Berry smiling from ear

was

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