Summary:

“Okay,” Ilya announces, clapping his hands as he steps into the one room in the house Shane’s designer wasn’t allowed to touch. “Your father is abandoning us today. What do you want to do, dochen’ka?” From a tangle of hot pink sheets and butterfly-shaped pillows, his eight-year-old daughter looks up at him with more sass than any one person should be allowed to hold. “Dad has work,” Nina points out, just as Shane yells from the kitchen, “I am not abandoning you! I am going to my job!” -OR- Ilya and his daughter go to the Science Museum and learn that Ilya might be a little bit scared of butterflies.