AKIN "Wow! Daddy your house is so big," Tara gazed round my living room, her eyes wide in wonder. I chuckled. "Yes, but I also stay here alone, it's so lonely sometimes," she looked confused at my words. "What's lonely?" I knelt to her level and pouted. "It means I'm very sad because nobody stays here with me." Her eyes widened and she gasped, "No, daddy," she hugged me, "I'll stay with you so you won't be lonely anymore." "Thank you, my princess, but if you stay with me who will stay with mummy?" She gasped again as if just realising my words. "That's true, daddy, I can't leave my mummy." I stroked my beards in thought and hummed, she copied my action and stroked her non existent beards. I almost laughed at the act, but stifled it. It wouldn't do to laugh and ruin the show I just

