Chapter 56

CORNELIUS

Happiness, I never really knew it until today because boy oh boy when the doctor said Lydia was pregnant my heart had been roaring so loudly in my throat.

I was going to be a father.

To a girl and I really hoped it was a girl. Or a boy, a choice Lydia preferred.

A few months later and we were still indecisive whether we wanted to know the gender of the baby or not. Girl or boy, my mind had been solely dependent that I was going to be a father and God damn it, I was going to be the best father there was going to be.

While Benjamin Flores, my dad had been a dick to me in my entire childhood, he had still been a father figure to me and I was hell bent on being a better father to my kids. And Lydia? Well, I had no doubt she was going to be a good mother even though her temper tantrums over the past few months had overtaken the sweetness inside of her.

“You did good”, Cain said pulling me out of my reverie.

I gulped the martini at a go, eyeing him with a quirked brow,

“What’s tha