Let Your Hearts Be Light (Christmas Daddies, #1)

by Fae Quin

“It was my idea!” Becca cheered and I grinned at her, following her around as she pointed out all the decorations that she’d planned. As head of the Student Council she’d gotten to be in charge of a lot of the planning for the trip and she was more than a little excited as she chatted away at me. I couldn’t help but be warmed by her words. It had been a long time since we’d just…talked like this. Without the anxiety of the bakery hanging over us. Without my own fear. Without her age getting between us because I didn’t know how to talk to the teenager that held my little girl hostage inside her. I realized now that the distance between us had been mostly my fault. Becca hadn’t changed. She was still the same little kid that threw up a lemonade stand at the end of our driveway every summer and saved all her money up so she could throw an even bigger stand the next year. She was still the same kid that had given all her Barbies haircuts, then insisted she cut mine. The same kid that skinned her knee at the park and instead of crying, she just told me with importance that “it would heal, daddy. Don’t cry.” She was… Mine. As she always had been.