“I'm so sorry I don't spend enough time with you. I…I don't play with you enough. It's just work. I have to work so much, honey. I don't want you to lack anything just because you don't have a father,” she said, not knowing if he even understood what she was saying.

“Why is Mommy crying?” Paul asked.

Ariel said nothing and continued to cry. Her poor son did not deserve such a useless mother.

But then he has a father. Wait, he has a father now.

Ariel raised her head and held her son's face.

“Paul, would you like to meet your daddy?”

“My daddy? I have Daddy?”

“Yes,...