Page 35 of Her Gentle Daddy

He climbed into bed next to her, setting the book on the nightstand for another night, and pressed the bottle against her lips. She immediately began sucking down the liquid without so much as opening her eyes. He watched her for a long time, even after the bottle was long gone, and made a promise to himself and to Gabby that he would always take care of her and love her so much that she would start to forget about her past life.

“I love you, baby,” he whispered before getting up from the bed to go take his shower.

When he emerged from the bathroom a while later, he felt much lighter in his nether region and sleepily made his way across the room, climbing into bed with his sleeping angel.

14

GABBY

“I need to run an errand.”

Sean looked up from his computer with a confused look.

“Okay, where do you need to go? Can I finish up what I’m working on first before we go?”

She shifted from foot to foot nervously. She had a feeling Sean was not going to make this easy on her. Besides going to work, and the one time he left her to go to his office, they had not been apart since the day she’d come to live with him nearly two months before.

“I need to run an errand by myself.”

Sitting up straighter, Sean furrowed his eyebrows.

“Where do you need to go? I can take you wherever you need, Gabby.”

Darn him for being such a good Daddy. But this was something that she needed to do on her own. She still had no idea if she was chasing a hopeless trail, and it was something that she wanted to find out for herself before she shared it with him.

“I just need to go somewhere, but I want to go alone. I hope you can understand. I’ll take my car. It should only take me an hour or so.”

Sean stood and walked over to her, his gaze piercing into her.

“There is no way you are driving that hunk of junk anywhere. You can take my car, but I would prefer that you let me take you.”

Looking up into his face, she could see that he would not budge about taking her car and her bottom clenching told her not to push that subject.

“Daddy, I need to do this by myself.”

He studied her for a moment, and she wondered if he was going to put his foot down and tell her no, and she didn’t know what she would do if he did. She wasn’t a prisoner, but she agreed to submit to him and follow his rules.

“Are you going anywhere that you will be potentially unsafe?”

She shook her head, “No, Daddy. Not at all.”

“Is it anything that I need to be concerned about?”

“No. I promise. It’s just something that I need to do, and I’m not ready to share it yet. It has to do with why I moved to Seattle in the first place.”

She could see the conflict in his expression and knew part of him wanted to tell her no. Deep down, she knew that he wouldn’t. He would give her the world if she asked for it. But he was worried about her.

“Daddy, I promise, I will be safe. I’m not doing anything bad. It’s just something that I feel like I need to do alone.”

“What if you start feeling anxious? Or have a panic attack? What if you have a panic attack while you’re driving and you get into an accident?”

She smiled up at him. He was seriously the Daddy of her dreams.

“Are you always such a worry wart?”

Lowering his face until it was hovering just above hers, his delicious scent surrounding her, he brushed his lips against hers.

“When it comes to you, yes. I will always worry about you because I love you, and I always want to protect you and keep you safe.”

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