Rafael watched his daughter jump from one place to the next. He could tell that she was enjoying herself. Aunt Philly was close by watching while, V jumped from one place to the other. Now that he saw his daughter having the time of her life, he could very well tell that this was all he had been missing to give to his daughter. Maybe coming here often would help build her into the woman he had always wanted her to be. That wasn't so hard or was it?
"Alpha Rafael, V wants you to come to join her," aunt Philly called out to him. Without wasting much, he went over to where they were and joined them.
"Dad..." his daughter called out to him as she jumped into his embrace, hugging him tighter than glue with so much excitement. He pulled her into his arms.
"Now that daddy is here, you better be ready for more fun.." He tickled her slightly which made her giggle in his arms.
Rafael took his daughter around. They played the Merry go round, jumped on the swings, slides and playground climbers.
Actually what he wanted to do was to see his daughter have fun, not he ended up having much fun more than he had ever imagined.
When they were done playing, he took his daughter to the kiddies mall where he bought her toys. He had to change the toys since she had scissors the ones he gave her.
After buying her toys, they went to the movies and lastly the restaurant.
"Tell me, baby, did you have fun today?"
His daughter nodded while licking her ice cream. She loved ice cream so he made sure she never ran out of them.
"Can we come tomorrow?"
Rafael and aunt Philly took glances at each other.
"You want us to come back tomorrow?"
"Every day," Violet muttered.
Rafael let out a hearty chuckle. He had never expected that his daughter would have so much fun as to request for them to come back every day.
"I see how much you want to come back here every day baby. But daddy has got some work to do and hence he won't be able to make it every day.
V suddenly became sad, and that hurt him as fuck.
"You know what, little pumpkin, daddy will take you out once every week. What do you like?"
V who had been downcast earlier, immediately raised her head to meet his eyes.
She smiled warmly, and that melted his heart, making him feel like the luckiest father ever.
After the day's outing, Rafael took his daughter who had fallen asleep into the car after the meal and had more fun.
"You see, Alpha Rafael. If you could be here for her quite often, I'm sure her tantrums would be greatly reduced."
"You are very right, aunt. From now on, I will try to put in more for my daughter because I wish to see her happy "
"And you should never doubt that you are not doing great as a dad. On the contrary, you are far better than any man I know out there. Violet loves you very much, and that's the more reason she wants you to be around her all the time. Also, I believe the reason why she craved a mother's attention is when she craves yours and never gets it. Seeing that you are not there she wants someone else to be there, and that person she so seeks is known other than a mother."
After aunt Philly had stressed out all the things she believed were the reason for V's tantrums, he believed it. Though how she came about identifying a mother's love and wanting it was still a mystery to him as well but he truly believed that his daughter just wanted him to be there at all times like every other normal kid would do.
Rafael decided to give his daughter at least once a while once a week. And that was exactly what he planned to do until she was fully grown to an extent where she could take good care of herself.
The day for the general meeting was fast approaching, and just as he had said to his beta he still wouldn't be attending just yet. There are still little things he wished to do. And he's not doing any other thing until he had successfully done that which he had in mind to do.
"Lucas, you know the usual. Make sure everything that pertains to the meeting is reported back to me, this way I will be current about what is happening."
"Just as you want it, Alpha Rafael. Though, this time, the meeting will be taking place in the new headquarters which was about to be launched.
"I was informed earlier."
He wished that he could go himself to see exactly what the place was looking like and meet new business partners.
Though, his beta was trying his best when it comes having his businesses.
But if he was to show up as the new owner, He knew that there will be more business associates who might want to talk to him and all.
For now, he was okay with his beta still being the one seen. He had a lot on his plate. And the best way to keep things moving and in stable condition was when he was stable himself.
He has a daughter to take care of. A daughter who needs his attention all the time. Getting attraction to different partners might keep him busier, and in a time like that, his daughter whom he had promised might end up getting disappointed.
In the time coming, she might not want to be around her, since he was never there when she needed him the most. He had seen so many broken relationships between parents and their kids which were caused as a result of the parents not paying close attention to their kids.
He has only one daughter and he can't even imagine just daughter hating him all because he wasn't there for her.
He loved his daughter so much and would rather work hard to give her the peace and freedom she deserves.