New Dad, New Life ✦ Fane & Klaus
He had a daughter. He’d had a daughter for years and he never knew. If he had, well, his life would have been much different. All he knew now is that he had to find her and that he had to change. Everything had to change and for her he’d do anything. He now felt even more ashamed for the path that he’d led after Liliya died. She wouldn’t blame him. She’d probably say something about how all that mattered was what he did now, just like she always did. Their past didn’t matter, only their present and their future, that’s what they’d always said.
He dropped everything and made arrangements to meet the girl. His girl. Maybe one day she’d grow to call him Dad. Fourteen years. He hoped that she had been given everything he could only dream of. Liliya’s family had been well off and he was sure she was treated special because of her mother’s absence. At least she should have been. He’d have given her anything. He still would. Everything he could. He had to scrape together everything he had just to afford a last minute ticket to New Orleans.
She’d asked to meet him at a small coffee shop and for once in his life he was on time, but he couldn’t find the courage to go inside and meet her. He peaked inside the café and immediately spotted her. She was a spitting image of her mother and upon seeing her he just lost his breath. What was he supposed to say? He suddenly got the feeling that he himself was being watched and we he turned around to check, sure enough there was a man standing behind him. “Um…can I help you?”
