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*＊✿❀🌼🍀❀✿Chapter 33

Just let me love you.

Your father had tears in his eyes, and that made your heart race.

"Hello, Dad." The words were choked out by your voice.

This is the moment you have spent endless years envisioning. Imagine what it would be like to finally meet your absent father and his glamorous wife, who replaced your mother fourteen years ago. Your dad drew you into a tight embrace because he was so overcome. His trembling arms wrapped around your body. He found it unbelievable that you decided to see him, much less spend at his residence. You only want to feel joy once more and release yourself from this burden of unforgiveness. When your dad hugged you, there was an unsaid excitement in his voice. He has been attempting to gain the favour of his oldest child for years, but you have always turned him down.

He had no idea how his actions affected his favourite child. He left his first family behind to be with his true mate because he knew he had hurt you so deeply.

He has regretted the suffering he caused his family throughout the years. He felt it in his heart like a hot iron. Knowing he had ruined Shelly and his three children did not make him very happy. However, he was lucky that Shelly had forgiven him ten years ago and forced him to move on. She never moved on, but still.

Shelly informed him of his children's accomplishments and significant life events during those long, empty years without them. Together with Amelia, he immigrated to New Zealand to start again. His main regret was not being present when Becky became such a lovely, adorable young child. When she was a few months old, he left. 

Over the years, he would visit his kids in Sydney, but Ruby would constantly be preoccupied with school sports in a different area or spending time with Samantha. He never really met her, and he would make demands on Shelly, who kept her oldest daughter at a distance until Ruby snapped at the age of fourteen, declaring that she didn't want to talk, see, or hear about him. When she was nine years old, her father died the day he left that door.

 He knew his daughter no longer loved, respected, or looked up to him. They went on several dates and had a great time together; he was her unfailing hero. Whenever she had a sporting event, he was there. They made the best team. She was always and forever a daddy's girl. He met with Bryant and Becky multiple times, and they both forgave him.

"Oh, Rubina, thank you for coming." His speech was filled with passion as he showed you around his magnificent hotel suite, which was spacious and quite opulent.