A little girl in a billionaire’s office innocently asks him to be her dad—unaware her words are about to uncover a truth that changes everything

myself, “most of us are slightly afraid of you.”

He looked at me for a moment. Then he laughed — a short, real sound that clearly startled him as much as it startled everyone else.

Lea, meanwhile, had been studying him with the patience of a scientist confirming a hypothesis.

“So?” she said. “Will you?”

“Lea—”

“She deserves an answer,” Adrian said. He crouched continue reading …