The Revenge of One Humiliated
And she looks at me as if she'd just asked what time it is, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, as if she couldn't imagine for a second that I might answer anything but yes, that I might be anything but yes, that I might want anything but yes.
"More than anything, Lola. More than anything in the world," I say in a voice I don't recognize, a voice that trembles, a voice that cracks, a voice that says things my heart has known for six years but that my mouth has never dared to form. "More than anything, I want to be your daddy. I want to be there for you, forever. To watch you grow up, to teach you things, to protect you, to love you. To be the one who will be there when you nee