not while i'm around (джен)

“Daddy?” Her hand has wrapped around his fingers, squeezing them as tightly as her grip can handle. “Are you scared?”
His left hand, unoccupied, squeezes into a fist. “What makes you think that, honey?”
“Your eyes are shiny, like you’ve been crying,” she replies. “And you kinda look like you don’t wanna be where you are.”