Chapter 50 - Hate

Carter sits at his desk in his home office playing with 2-year old Mae. Liya silently enters the room and sits beside them.

"Are you going along well with your sister, Liya?" asks Carter, adjusting her hair clip.

"Yes, father. We always play together."

"Good. You're a very responsible girl, I know that."

Liya looks up at her father timidly. "Father, do you like me?"

Carter looks taken aback by the question and wrinkles his brows. "Of course, you're my daughter. I love you."

"My friends' fathers always accompany them everywhere; they go out a lot and their fathers are always laughing when they are with them. You always… frown and speak very little with me. Do I make you sad?"

Carter lets out a huge sigh. "Liya, dear, it's nothing like that. I'm very busy with work so I don't have time to sit with you. Why don't you also come to me? You're always with your mother."