Daddy's Love

"Which way, miss?" I ask her.

"Straight and then a right." She is jittery.

I take a right and the road is empty. We are in the countryside so there aren't many people here, thankfully. I'd have taken me so much to cover my tracks otherwise.

I park my car and lock all the doors. Baby girl looks at me quizzically. I open the dashboard of my car and take a needle out and start filling it with some medicine that is supposed to knock my baby girl out. We are all given some by the government when we start looking for our littles.

"Wha.... What are you doing?!" She looks at me wide eyed and then tries to open the door of the car to escape, on the verge of tears. It breaks my heart. I steel myself, concentrating on the task at hand.

"Help! Helllppp please!" she shouts, banging on the window with her small wrists.

girl, it's okay...." I move towards

hand and, she struggles and moves around so much

I grab her and put her

don’t...."

her as I inject the medicine in her arms. And then I rub her back and bounce her on my lap and whisper

She scrambles to one end of her crib and freezes, hugging herself. She holds her arms and looks at me like I am about to kill her when I take a step into the room. She could have easily vanished into

throw tantrums or try to run away when they are first brought in here by their daddies but I have

a time, trying not

extend my

hides her face in her arms like I was about to hit