Forty Two

Zach stares at my grandpa with something akin to a death glare.

"Come here princess" He says, arms wide open as the little girl ran into his arms with wobbly legs, her tiny feet making soft patters on the marble floor.

"Dada!" The girl says, no more than two years old, hair plaited into two braids, large doe eyes and raven black hair. She has Zach's features and looks almost exactly like him. She hugs him tightly and he pulled her to his chest, burying his face in the crook of her neck as he sighed.

I can't believe the scene in front me. Zach has a friggin daughter!

I just signed up to be the child's stepmother, and if that's not the case then I might have signed up to be a second wife....this is bad.

"You have a daughter?" My voice trembles as I wait for him to reply me, all I want right now is for him to shake his head and tell me no, explain to me and tell me that this is all just a big joke or that I might be imagining all of it right now.

"Hello Mojo. Glad to see you took good care of my daughter. Although she wouldn't have to be in your care if you didn't kidnap her in the first place" Zach says as his gaze turned icy, I turn to my grandfather and realized Zach was referring to him. My grandpa's name is Mojo?

"Zach Lee. Always putting business first, I didn't kidnap her as you accused me of, you can check the CCTV cameras around the park where I picked her up. Her caretakers had left her there, I was taking my usual evening stroll and I saw a toddler sitting in the middle of the sandpit with no one supervising her, and I brought her home with me. I might hate you but not to the point of hurting a child" Grandpa says and he smiles, his familiar twinkling eyes as the wrinkles on the sides of his face tightened.

"Can anyone explain to me whatever the fuck it is that's going on here?"

"Language. There's a child here"

"That wasn't what I asked"

"Okay, fine. I left out this tiny detail and I was going to tell you about her when we got to my house. But I discovered that she wasn't home when I left this morning and that an old man had picked her up at the park yesterday" he says, giving my grandfather a pointed look.

"Hey, I'm not that old. And besides, i did you a favor, she could've ended up with someone much worse than I am"

"You and I both know that no one like that exists in this city....at least none that we know of"

"Oh, hush. I'd like to know more important things. Starting with why my granddaughter came here with you, cause last I checked you two didn't know each other, and I'd also like to know why she's in a wedding dress"

"Well that's simple. She's my wife starting today" Zach says with a smirk on his face and I saw my grandpa clench his jaw.