Mr Bodyguard, Protect Your Heart!

"Momma, do I not have a father?"

And hearing Gavriel ask that question, Dove felt her heart shiver, and a thin layer of tears coated her eyes.

As Gavriel looked at her with genuine curiousness and innocence to his answer, Dove felt her heart hurt. She rubbed his temples with her hand gently and couldn’t help but ask, "And why are you asking about it all of a sudden today, baby?"

Before Dove knew that, she had blurted it out.

But then she bit her own tongue guessing that it would not have been a good question to be asked.

Well, but Gavriel did not seem to take it in a different way, and he blinked his eyes saying, "Because momma, everyone else has a father.

Andy also had a father. The big uncle in the company also has an old father. Even Tintin, the cat, in the cartoon has a father. Why don’t I have a father? Is it because I am a bad child, that the Lord did not give me a papa?"

Dove could see disappointment swirl in his eyes as he uttered the last sentence.

And as a mother, she just couldn’t see her child in such a way. Swallowing the lump in her throat, she did not think twice before blurting out, "Of course, Gavi has a father!"

And Dove saw her son raise his head to look at her at once, blinking his big eyes, and delight slowly spreading on her face. "Really? I have a papa too?" He seemed thrilled.

He seemed excited to hear that. And Dove always wanted that excitement to be present on her son’s face. She forced a sweet smile and nodded her head. "Yes, my baby. You also have a father. After all, my Gavi is such a good child. Why would the Lord punish him in such ways?"