Care

Even the wrapper of the gift was super pretty in the nymph's eye, light blue fabric like material with white fur clouds printed on it.

Roxanne felt that she could use this wrapping fabric as a scarf thus when the pretty little girl opened the binding hesitantly, with all the care and focus concentrated on it Darius found it cute to the extreme.

"Babydoe, my gift is inside......the thing you are rather focused on right now was meant to be thrown."

"Daddy, I will make a sca- no um actually I will make greeting cards out of this." Roxanne saw Darius's frowning face and thus carefully used her words, if the man knew that she would wear a gift wrapping paper around her neck he might throw a fit as well.

"You are the silliest baby I could have ever known." The federal judge whispered incoherently yet when the words reached Roxanne's ear she could not help but whine in protest.

She opened the tin box in excitement yet when a snow white color appeared infront of her eyes in a fluffy, silky pattern she could not help but take it out in an hurry. There were ten small soft toys similar to the water animals that she had seen today and various other animals that were beyond adorable.

A tiny baby cow in pink and white along with a pair of pastel colour crabs that had their claws as squishy as a marshmallow candy.

Then there was a pink alpaca plushie which looked as if many light colour grapes were sewed together with lastly followed by a set of octopus, one seal with her baby seal and many others. The entire car seemed to be filled with plush toys yet Roxanne did not spoke anything for a while.

"Does my baby likes it?" As soon as the warm palm rubbed her red head a small sniffle was heard followed by a teary eye Roe looking at Darius before embracing him.

"D-Daddy you are so nice t-to me....."

The objective of those gifts was never to give Roxanne splendid treasures rather it was to bring comfort to her soul. Once while sleeping she had mentioned that Elijah often haunted her in nightmares and when Serena was out of the house it became scary for her to even take a brink of sleep, being scared that the monster would come and take her away.

Darius understood that even though he would stay by her side as much as she wished yet he never tried to make her dependent on him. She might find it sweet and caring for now but in reality he would be no different from Elijah because her father also love her mother Mia the same way.

Making the woman completely dependent on him, he slowly cut off her wings and bound her in the chains, taking her freedom away and that was reason that even though Darius brought Roxanne at his home to live for a few days yet never asked her to completely shift.

She was a working woman who earned and governed her own life, her innocence was not entangled with being incompetent, she can take her own responsibilities and survive because that was what she was doing even before he entered her life.

Even though his baby appeared kind and naïve yet she was not foolish, she loved to be with him because he never enforced her to do something that she will not like. These gifts were an assurance that he will fill her life with rays of hope and light yet she must be the one to grasp it.

It was a symbolic that he can make efforts to make those nightmares disappear by providing her toys find happiness in them but she will be the one to overcome her fear.

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While Darius was taking a shower after the little girl, Roxanne bounced from one place to another inside the room decorating it with the things she had received just today.

Even though the dark royal blue walls looked in odd with the cute decorative soft animals as if a lion's den was being filled with flowers yet they were in a harmony just like the sweet curly red haired beauty who looked at Darius with shy, twinkling green eyes as he came out of the bathroom with drops of water drizzling on his exposed chest.

"Hmm sweetheart come here." Despite her shirt being completely soaked in water due to her wet hair, Roxanne was indifferent to that and only focused on his voice and went to the man in a hypnotic illusion.

He looked so hot in that half opened shirt that the little girl only drooled shamelessly trying to stop the red blush spreading on her cheeks.

"Here let me dry your hair." She placed her soft palm on his bicep trying to hold onto him as Darius took the dry towel in his hard to keep on Roxanne's head and gently rub the silky red strands that seemed to be mischievous and could not remain straight, curling as soon as they were played by those rough calloused fingers.

So precious.

"Daddy are you really my boyfriend?"

"Ofcouse sweetheart"

"So is it legal for me to umm- uh if I-."

" speak clearly Roe" when the stern command was emphasized his one palm wrapping around her waist the little girl was reduced to a stuttering mess.

"Is it legal for me to have....can I have mischievous thoughts about you and not be punished?"

The silence that prevailed after the question made Roxanne's entire face red like a tomato as she fiddled with her fingers looking down.

"It is like you are demanding to be punished."

I seriously apologize for not publishing Regime on due date because I rather published Devil's vow and gladiator, I will schedule Regime on another date and fulfil one chapter this week itself.