William suddenly, out of nowhere, sensed guilt that tugged at the edges of his conscience. While he harbored no remorse for his cheating wife, Tessa, whom he deemed deserving of her fate, the weight of absent years bore heavily on his shoulders when it came to his children—Mark, Michael, and Willow. His beloved children.Leaning back in his swivel chair, he gazed out of the window, the bustling city below a stark contrast to the turmoil within his heart. It is another day for him at the office. The image of his children, now grown-up adults navigating the complexities of life without his presence, haunted his thoughts."Mark... I'm sure you're a great man now," he whispered, the sentiment a quiet acknowledgement of the years that had slipped away. His mind wandered to Michael and Willow, the void left by their absence gnawing at him in a way that he had managed to suppress for far too long.For decades, he had played the role of an absent father, useless, cowardly. The fear of rejecti
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