"I was hoping you'd tell me girls were easier." He was uncomfortable. Zoe's mother was his first daughter in a long line of boys and he'd left her and her mother. Zoe was perhaps his redemption but he had no idea what to do to associate with her. " Its been a long time since I had a kid to take care of, and she's grown." Until they betrayed him as his one s on had done with Phaedra. He still had an aversion to getting close to his children since thst, but Zoe was the first he'd actually grown attached to, which had everything you do with not running.