MAE POV
“What is it?” he asked, and I found myself swallowing down a crazy bubble of emotion.
“Just this,” I admitted. “You. Your words are so kind.”
“So true,” he said.
And I knew it then, sitting right there at his dining table. I knew that Santa Claus really had been listening all those years I wrote him a note without my mum knowing. All those years I asked him for a daddy. A real man I could look up to, respect and love. Who’d be there to encourage my best and guide me through my worst. Who’d stand strong through it all and look at me with both pride and love in his eyes.
I may not have got what I was asking for all those years, but maybe it wasn’t because I was too bad to be deserving. Maybe it was just a long time coming.
The best presents are always the ones worth waiting for
