My heart stopped mid beat. That voice... I had heard it in my dreams so many times...
Daddy?
I turned to see the man from my visions standing before me with open arms. He looked the same as the picture Marianne had given me as a child. I didn't know what to feel... I had spent my life without a father figure, fought against every daddy issue stereotype and yet standing before him I felt like a little girl again...
Emotions overtook reason and I found myself crashing into his arms in tears.
He held me tightly and I felt a lifetime of loss lift from my soul. I never realized how desperately I wished for this moment.
"My Little girl. I have missed so much."
I couldn't speak through the tears crashing down my cheeks. I didn't want to let go for fear he would leave again.
"Ari we
