--- I woke up thinking about this one. ---
18. What he never had.
Boom.
"Daddy? Daddy, wake up," the little girl's voice was quiet but insistent.
Her father opened one bleary eye to study the little trembling blonde. "What's the matter, sweetheart?" he asked in a groggy voice.
"I'm scared," she said, and as if to puncture this fact there was another loud crash of thunder. The girl winced and hid her eyes in her hand.
The man smiled softly. "C'mon." The girl clambered quickly into bed, snuggling in between her mother and father.
Ed put his arm around the little girl, glad that he could give his daughter one thing he never had.