Christine Karden was excited but also anxious. She was to meet her father for the first time. It was just after the war had ended. She had been staying with a family in a small town a ways out of London. Her mother had been working in London and a year ago had been killed in one of the bombings. Her father was a celebrated United States Air Force Colonel fighter pilot. Her parents had separated before she had been born and her mother never told her father that he had a daughter. Christine had been told that a letter had been delivered to him a few weeks ago after the war ended telling him of the fact he had a daughter. Christine didn't know if he would even accept her as his daughter. She was hoping he would and that he would take her back to the United States with him. She was afraid he might not. Her parents had married when her mother was a student at Cambridge and her father a student at Oxford. When her father had joined the RAF after he graduated, her mother left him and wouldn't have anything to do with him. She also never told him she was pregnant. She had said she didn't want to be worried about him being killed so she refused to communicate with him. She had left Christine with a friend of hers so that Christine would be safe. The friend had a daughter about the same age. The mother actually seldom had visited Christine and had never shown any great affection for her daughter. Christine thought her mother really didn't want to have a baby. In fact that is what her father, Kainan Karden had thought, so he was totally surprised when he got the letter one day. The way the letter was written was that he was to be told of Christine only if she, the mother had died and only at the end of the war. Kainan got the idea that otherwise he would never have known he had a daughter, although he also got the idea that his wife did not want to have the child, but if she was alive he wasn't going to have her either. His wife had never divorced him he found out, but she had been buried by her family without his finding out she had been killed. He wondered if her family knew about Christine. It didn't sound to him like they ever knew. That is probably why she had written this letter to be delivered only if she had been killed. She didn't want her family to know she had a daughter. He began to think her family didn't know she had married him. He found out where Christine was now living. He immediately began to make plans to pick her up and made arrangements to take her back to America with him. He wanted to have everything arranged so that he could assure her that he was taking her to America and be able to tell her when and all the details. He was able to get some information on Christine from the family so with the help from some women he was able to get some things for her. He said nothing about all this to the family only that he was coming to see Christine. Kainan had no idea what Christine was like, but he had an idea what she must have been going through all these years knowing her mother really didn't care for her and her father didn't know about her. Kainan had no idea what Christine thought about a father who had never come to see her. She might think that he should have known he had a daughter and that he probably didn't want her either. This was all running through Kainan's mind as he tried to prepare himself to meet his daughter who he was sure must be around six years old now. How was she going to act. How could he assure her he really wanted her, when he was trying desperately trying to get a handle on his feelings about having a daughter he had never seen or even knew he had for the first six years of her life. He had friends in the States get an apartment for him in the city where he had graduated from High School. He had no family to come home to, he had been an orphan, whose parents had been killed in an accident when he was two years old. Thankfully they had told him they had rented him a three bedroom apartment that sounded like it had a small yard to go with it. He hadn't told them he discovered he had a daughter at least not until they had rented the apartment. Kainan went over all the possible scenarios he could think of for his first meeting with Christine. He decided he would have to concentrate on her and do everything he could to make it sound like he was happy he found he had a daughter. He knew this was going to be a very iffy situation. At the same time Christine was wondering what her new father would be like. How he would act toward her. Would he look like he was happy she was his daughter in spite of just being informed of it. Would he take her back to America with him. Would he just try to find someone who would adopt her. What kind of father would he be like. Would he like her or be like her mother was. She was hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. That was the situation when Kainan came to the house where she was living. He was greeted by the mother and taken into the room where Christine was now standing by what obviously were her things. She looked seriously at this tall good-looking man in a uniform practically holding here breath. She did notice that he had a very friendly smile on his face and then he said,

"Christine I am your father, Kainan. I have come to get you so we can go to America. Would you like to go to America with me?" and Kainan held out his arms and took a step toward her. Christine looked at him for a moment and then realized what he had said and a smile came on her face and she literally hurled herself across the room and into his arms as she said, actually literally shouted, "Yes Daddy I want to go to America with you, please." and she buried her face in his shoulder as he picked her up in his arms and hugged her. She silently sobbed in happiness as he held her. After a short time she pulled back her head and gave him a big smile and said, "When are we going daddy?"

"We are going to start our journey together as soon as we get your things into the car I have outside," Kainan said as he gave her another hug and a kiss on the cheek. "We can we talk about it as we drive back to London which will be the first leg of our trip to our home." Kainan just realized he had fallen in love with one little girl. Christine gave him another big smile when she heard him say "to our home."