Echo

Chapter four; Father

A father

A father is a male parent who plays a vital role in a child's life. He provides guidance, protection, and emotional support. He teaches life lessons, sets boundaries, and encourages his children to grow and thrive. He is a source of strength and stability, offering a safe haven for his children to explore the world.

A good father is present, engaged, and actively participates in his children's lives. He celebrates their successes and offers comfort during challenges. He strives to be a positive role model and instills values that will shape his children's future.

I haven’t seen my father since 2023, which is almost two years ago.

My preferences, talents, wants, allergies, style, favorite food, my father knew none of.

Hell I’d be shocked if he knew my middle name.

As I walked down the stairs I imagined how our interaction would be.

‘Echo my beautiful princess, I’ve missed you so much , how’s school? Here I got you this from my endless wandering’

Even if he said that, I’ll believe I’m in a dream or worse being hypnotized.

I grew closer to the loud voice of my mother already guessing what the argument was about.

‘If you had the decency, you be polite enough to respect our children, to respect me’ she said

‘If you wanted to be dishonest, to be unfaithful, why must you throw the family name in the mud’

‘Couldn’t you have put in effort to let it not get out’

‘Are you not even going to deny it, try to feed my delusions or something’

‘Would you have even come home if it hadn’t affected your company, do you even care about me , about us?’ She kept ranting.

My brother man spread on the sofa with his phone on his right hand obviously waiting for them to conclude on something so he can leave.

‘I didn’t know it will get out or get this bad, can’t you be understanding for once sera’ he replied

‘I’m not understanding you say’

‘Eric I was pregnant three times and you were only around once’ she replied.

Personally I’d love to know which one of us it was.

‘You weren’t involved in naming any of our kids, look at Andrew your first child, you don’t know s**t about him, your own heir, have you even had a conversation with echo since she was born? Even when Alex died, you still didn’t come’

‘My poor baby died and you didn’t give two shits, echo might be traumatized from the same accident that killed our son and you still don’t care’

‘Yet I’m the one being tagged as non understanding, you claim to be very busy with work but in reality you only care about getting your d**k wet’

‘Woman calm down, let’s find a way to stop the media from dragging our name in the mud further, all these are not necessary right now’ he said

‘You say the media dragged our name, no but you already did that, what can you possibly do about it, unfuck her or what’ she said

‘No I can’t do that but we can give them something new to talk about’

‘Oh now you need me to pretend to be a trophy wife to erase mistakes you made for your stupid business’

‘No actually, we’ll need to make alliances’

‘And how are we doing that?’ She asked.

‘The children will be getting betrothed’ he said.

Now this wasn’t on my bingo card at all………..