Daniel Alessandro walked out of the private elevator as he ended the call with his Secretary. His head was spinning after hearing the nonstop bickering of the Departmental Heads.

Thankfully, Secretary Wang decided to end the meeting before he could lose control and end up getting angry over those stupid people who were more interested in finding faults in each other's work instead of paying more attention to their own.

"Second Master..."

Daniel stopped in his tracks when he heard the familiar voice of Manager Williams. The man was in his late fifties and had been taking care of the Grand Diamond Resort ever since it opened nearly twelve years ago.

"Second Master, are you feeling alright?" Manager Williams asked as he approached Daniel, noticing the tiredness that was clearly visible in the eyes of the young man.

"No need to worry about me. I'll be fine after resting for a while. Prepare a room for me. I'll be staying here tonight and will leave tomorrow morning around five o'clock." Daniel informed the man before he walked away, not giving Manager Williams a single chance to speak again. 

He walked towards the main lobby as he was planning to take a walk in the garden area when suddenly a little girl appeared in front of him.

She was barely around five or six years old and her chubby cheeks were stained with the traces of tears that she had been shedding for a while by now.

She stared at him with her tear-filled small eyes, the dark brown color of her irises was looking even more pretty because of the unshed tears that she was holding back in her eyes.

Daniel looked around to see if he could spot the parents of the kid but found no one as far as his eyes could see.

He crouched down in front of the kid who was still sobbing lightly while she kept staring at him as if he intrigued her in some sort of way.

"Y-you... you have p-pretty... eyes..." She spoke in a soft voice through her sobs that were making her entire body shake.

Daniel found a small smile appearing on his lips as he stretched his arms out towards the girl who looked at them as if she had never seen such strong arms before.

"Thank you, little one. But you have the prettiest eyes." Daniel told her as he watched her finally stepping closer to him.

She raised her little hands and then suddenly wrapped them around his neck, taking Daniel by complete surprise as he was not expecting something like that.

"What...?"

"I wanna eat ice cream. Can you find me the uncle who will give me the ice cream? Mom refused to find the uncle." The girl asked him in a sweet voice as she tilted her head sideways to look at him.

Daniel chuckled softly as he picked the girl in his arms and stood up before asking, "Should not we find your parents first? They will be worrying about your whereabouts. I'll then take you to eat ice cream. How does that sound?" 

The girl immediately shook her head in denial, making her shoulder-length curly black hair bounce.

"Nope! Mom is going to be angry. She can be really scary sometimes." 

"Then what about your dad? Won't he try to help you out?" Daniel asked as he once again started walking towards the lobby.

The girl remained silent for a few seconds before she finally answered in a low voice, "I don't have one, to begin with." 

Daniel stopped in his tracks as his ears registered those words. He turned his face to look at her face only to find sadness filling her beautiful eyes. 

He was silent for a while as he contemplated what to say next. "It's alright. Having a dad is always not a good thing." 

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he noticed the tears that started rolling down the kid's cheeks, making him realize that he probably failed to say the right thing.

"Alright! Don't cry. Let's go and find your mum. I promise I'll not let her get angry at you. Them we will get ice creams for you." He tried to calm her down as he took out a tissue from his pocket to wipe her face.

"You promise?" She asked softly as she wrapped her little hands around his big one. 

"I promise," Daniel replied in a similar soft tone as he brought her to the receptionist and asked them to find the mother of the kid.

It did not take long before a woman in her late twenties entered the resting area where he was playing with the girl whose name was Claire.

Daniel raised his head to look at the entrance of the room and as soon as his eyes landed on the figure of the woman with curly black hair, dark brown eyes, and rose pink lips that were moving as she said something, he found himself losing control over reality.

His eyes refused to leave her and he felt something inside him flutter as he watched her run towards her daughter whom she immediately wrapped into her arms. The worry in her eyes seemed to pull some sort of strings inside his heart. 

"Thank you... Thank you so much..." 

He seemed to read her lips as she was thanking him. Her eyes were filled with sincerity and gratitude.

"Huh?" 

Daniel finally seemed to come out of the world of thoughts that had sent him to a place where only Claire's mother seemed to be present other than him.

"Sir, are you alright?" The woman asked as she looked at him with worry in her eyes.

Her voice... it sounded just as soft and musical as Claire's.

Daniel seemed to be no longer able to think things straight anymore. He shook his head to get rid of the thoughts before he hurriedly nodded his head as he replied, "I... I'm alright. You..."

"Thank you again for today. I need to leave now because I'm in a hurry. Here... it's my card. Please find me later. I'll make sure to thank you properly today. I'm really sorry. Please excuse me." 

Before Daniel could say anything else, a card was shoved into his hands and he watched the woman running out of the room with Claire in her arms.

The last thing he saw was the sad look on Claire's beautiful face... he failed to complete his promise...!