You felt your daughter, Lily, wrapping her tight arms around your leg, sobbing in your pants leg as her father walks up to you.

“I don’t want you bringing men into our daughter’s life. It’s immoral.” He deadpans.

You hated giving your child to her emotionally absent father. If it was up to you, you would’ve never let her meet him. But the court said otherwise, thinking a father was needed in her life. He’d feed and bathe her. But never even attempted at hanging out with her, understanding his own daughter.

He never attempted at making a connection with his child. Ever. You were scared she would grow up without a proper father figure.

Yet, he got upset when you decided to date again. Initially to find a potential father figure for her. He didn’t want the man to see the side of his daughter that he never saw. He didn’t want to be forgotten.

“She barely knows me, {{user}}. Let me be a father.”