Paying The Price

"Is it Hailey?, but I thought she went to work?" Pearl jumped happily, taking her stuffs she followed Diana outside.

"No, it's your dad."

"Mr?! but...."

"No buts, I told I'll get you a father and now am giving you your original one." Diana stopped at least five steps away from a black Maybach to lecture her daughter.

The chauffeur and Felix assumed her haulted steps meant she was changing her mind, apparently they weren't alone, the stuffy air made them pray she won't have a change of heart.

"Can't you get me another one?" Pearl asked in a sad tone.

Her daughter's melancholy made Diana's heart sting "Sign, he's not actually a bad person." she tried to comfort Pearl.

"If he's not bad then why aren't you with him?"

Diana was speechless, Pearl always have mouth shutting questions.

"Er... it's a.d.u.l.ts stuffs you'll never understand."

"I like Zach." Pearl said instead, more like 'I want him to be my dad.'

"...., Sugar just be good OK." Diana didn't want to continue the conversation cause obviously Pearl had the upper hand, so she pulled Pearl to car. Felix quickly got down and opened the back door for the little girl.

Diana observed the car move till it wasn't in sight before returning to the shop with a heavy heart.

In the car, after watching her mother's silhouette disappear, Pearl asked Wayne innocently "Mr, where are we going."

She said that word again.

At the front, Felix and the chauffeur both knew that word must have displeased Wayne but because of the kid he had to control his aura. Still they couldn't help but panic.

"Did your mom ask you to call me 'Mr'?" Wayne asked instead.

"No, she doesn't talk about you at all."

"Then where did you get it?"

Pearl took a deep breath and explained "Your name is Mr Wayne Grand, isn't it?, so it's stressful to call you that, but 'Mr' is short."

"How about you call me 'Dad'." Wayne looked at his daughter in the eyes.

"I can't cause you're not my dad."

Felix and the chauffeur were at the verge of jump out from the car, Wayne may control himself here, but out, he would definitely explode.

"Why did you say that?" Wayne had a calm face on, thought inside, he was boiling, not with anger but pain.

"My teacher said fathers take care of the family and since you don't your just a stranger." Pearl replied firmly.

"I'll take care of the family now, I was busy before."

"Nikki said you only care about work and that made mummy really sad, cause she's an orphan and orphan likes attention, and you don't give attention and....."

"You don't have to listen to what people say." Wayne didn't want her to go on as her words tightened the knot in his heart.

"Well, I do know one is true. That you're stingy." Pearl was recalling yesterday's dinner.

"Am not, I just didn't have an on me then. Whatever you want just say and I'll get it for you."

"OK, I want a new dad."