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Do You Deserve to Be Called A Father?
Author: Orchard Minn
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Wayne only chuckled and balanced Elsa on his legs. “This is my father’s house so I’m going nowhere.”

“Really? Daddy? You’re going to be staying with us for a while?” Elsa raised her head up to ask.

“Yes, Princess.”

“Elsa!” Anna scowled immediately, a bitter sensation rising up her throat cause of the loving father daughter relationship playing out between them.

“Get away from that man this instant!”

“No.” Elsa looked back at Anna with teary eyes. “He’s my Daddy and I won’t leave him.”

All of them stared wide eyes at Elsa, wondering when she got the audacity to talk back at her Grandma.

“You can’t blame the little brat, Loretta has always been bias towards teaching her manners!” Aleena rolled her eyes angrily. “Her mother is the kind of person that wouldn’t hesitate to backbite the whole family. So I can imagine her daughter refusing to listen because of a bastard!”

“Elsa, dear.” Fedora tried to coax her away from him. She was the only one that spoke softly to Elsa in the whole family,
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