Deal

Author's Pov

Leonard glared at the picture laid on his office table before curling his inked fingers around it. He pulled the picture closer to his deep amber eyes before gritting his teeth. The more he tries to be better with her, to be good with her the more it ticks his guilty conscience for giving happiness to the girl who was the daughter of the man that destroyed his family.

In the picture, a man was sitting on the chair with a newborn holding in his embrace as a wide smile of that man was captured in the camera. Leonard loved the fact that it was him who snatched that smile from that man, who became the reason for his tears, and he was willing to give that man nothing but pain.

His eyes slightly softened when they fell on the newborn baby, he knew she did not have any fault in all of this. She wasn't supposed to suffer the pain his father put her through but he was helpless. The guilty conscience of his just couldn't afford to see her happy even though her tears broke him too.