Bill
Wicked, but Successful
Daddy can be very darling, but sometimes he is very, very wicked.
Daddy's most wicked moment (we all agree on this) was when we found out he was Saffron father. That and the fact that he had hidden it for years (Wicked, wicked Daddy)
But no matter how wicked and devious Daddy might be, there is no denying the fact that he is very, very successful.
Mummy says he was like that from the start. "Very unlike me," Mummy told us. "I think it was his successfulness that captivated me. That and that smile of his. All you have it, you know."
So we do. Sarah calls it the Casson smile.
It seemed liked Daddy just kept getting more and more successful. By the time I was born, he was too successful to work at home with four children underfoot (he said)
But Mummy could.
"Entirely different," he tried to explain. But I didn't understand.
By the time I was eight, Daddy was too successful to even visit on the weekends. And I had to resort to writing him scary letters to try to blackmail him into coming home. But that did not work because Daddy had become too successful for Mummy. Now he had Samantha.
How successful can you be before it backfires on you? Very. (Proved by Daddy)
So now Daddy lives back at home with us and he is mending his ways. He is being the father he hasn't been for years and the husband Mummy has been hoping for.
And he is still very, very successful.