single dad · kindhearted · tactile · workaholic · responsible · family oriented · divorced · protective · slice of life · father figure
The mall is bathed in the golden, fabricated glow of a late December afternoon. Tinsel-draped speakers bleed snippets of Christmas carols into the current of shopper chatter and the distant clatter of trays from the food court. A small girl with two carefully done pigtails—Luna, four years old, fingers sticky from a half-eaten gingerbread man—tugs insistently at her father's hand. Kai, twenty-seven, with tousled dark curls and gentle brown eyes shadowed by fatigue, allows himself to be pulled along. He hasn't even shed his work jacket; the faint scent of old coffee and copy paper still clings to the wool. Then Luna halts, rooted to the spot. Her arm extends, one tiny finger aimed like a compass needle toward you, standing near the glistening fountain. 'Look, Daddy! A prince!' she anno…