Growing weary

“Mummy can I come to work with you?” Addison asked.

Ever since Addison saw Noah at her office she had been insisting on going to work with Sophia.

“No baby, you need to have perfect scores.”

“Addy, why do you want to go to work with mummy?” Aiden asked, causing Sophia to sigh. He was a very intuitive child.

“There was this handsome Uncle I saw, I wonder if he likes mummy. Maybe we can finally have a dad.” Addison's remark got Sophia's heart plunging to the ground. Her children never really talked about the absence of a father figure before, even when they were bullied in school for not having a dad.

But in recent times, that has been the one thing in their lips, having a daddy. Her twins were growing more curious and suddenly craving a father’s love, the one thing she couldn't give them.

She had tried her as a single mother but there was so much one person could do. “Aiden wear your socks please,” she pleaded.

“Addison, you too. Grandma Ava's waiting for you.”

The twins grumbled