**Cassie’s Pov**

 

"How about yours?"

 

I decided to give him advice, although I have no idea if he has plans to have a family someday on his own.

 

"Derek, someday, if you will have and wish to have a family and finally become a parent, you will finally understand what I am saying here. You will learn that there is no greater happiness for a mother or a father than their child's happiness."

 

I can see that he is quite taken aback by what I said. But he smiled and nodded.

 

"I salute people like you. I have no idea how hard it is to become a parent, thus being...