Maelis

“Daddy?” Anna repeated, still staring at the obvious evidence of our frantic entanglement, the melting ice cream cones held in her small hands.

Lucian recovered instantly, as he stepped forward quickly, providing an excuse, “We were umm… killing bugs. Yeah, there’s a bug on her face and I’m helping her to kill it. Baby, you see…” He rushed the excuse, then quickly pivoted. “When did you get here anyway?”

“Just now, when daddy was taking too long to come back,” she said to him with the same confusion written on her little face, looking unconvinced by his 'bug' excuse.

He nodded at her going to her side and took...