Carlos Sainz ³

"Daddy, why don't I have a mommy?"
Carlos sighed and put down the brush he was using to comb the hair of Iris, his 4-year-old daughter.
"I've told you this many times, love: because there isn't a single mother who wants to be with us."
"But Rebecca did want to be with us."
Carlos remembered his second and last wife, Rebecca Donaldson, a beautiful but superficial model who deep down didn't love Iris.
"Rebecca wasn't what she seemed, little girl."
He picked up the brush and began to untangle his little girl's hair again, as black as his own.
"Will I ever have a mom?"
"I don't know, beautiful, I don't know"
He murmured and helped her lie down on the bed
At 31, Carlos had already been through two divorces: Isabel Hernandez, his first wife, to whom he was married for six years and who was the mother of Iris, left him for another man. Then there was Rebecca, who at first seemed honest, but in the end, it turned out she only wanted him for his looks. Carlos worked in a small computer business; they didn't lack money, but what they did lack was a woman in the house. A mother.
That afternoon they were returning from Carlos's work when they went into a pastry shop to buy some sweets.
"I want that daddy! The pink one!"
Iris screamed
"It's very expensive, little one, I can't afford it."
"But I want that one!"
Iris started to pout