Love you like a mother

Xavier opened Diana's side of the car door, helping her alight. He locked his hands with hers and led her into the pack house.

His daughter who had been watching him from the window of her room, springed down the stairs and threw her arm around him, burying her face into his shoulders.

"Where have you been? I missed you daddy" Sarah's voice laced with love and worry for her father.

She turns to stare at the lady her father had walked in with. She stares for a long time before Diana's face registered in her mind.

She settled her green eyes on Diana giving her a flat stare.

She remembered the teacher who had dragged her to the principal's office to report her and finally got her suspended.

The girl whose hair she had dragged had actually started the fight first but she knew no one would have believed her if she had told them so.

Apart from the flat stare Sarah had given her, there was no other form of acknowledgement from the little red haired girl.

She skipped down the sitting room and