Chapter 58

Riley POV

“Why don’t I haves a Daddy?” I’m sitting at the breakfast bar doing some work on my laptop while Julia takes a bath when Nina walks over to me and asks me that. She’s been in the lounge playing with Josh so I don’t know where that’s come from. I look down at her and see sadness all over her cute little face and it breaks my heart.

It’s been almost two weeks since we found out that I am her Dad, but we decided to wait until after Christmas and New Year to tell her in case she got upset by the news. Of course, I’m praying that she doesn’t but it is a possibility and none of us want to ruin her first Christmas and birthday with a roof over her head.

I get off the stool and duck down so that I’m face-to-face with her. “What did you say, sweetheart?” I’m pretty sure that I know what I heard but I want to double-check just in case I’m somehow wrong. “Why don’t I haves a Daddy?” Fuck, I was hoping that I was wrong. A million thoughts swarm my head while t