Page 15 of Discovering Daisy

“So what are you not going to do?” he prompted.

“Run on the deck, sir.”

He nodded with a smile. “Good girl. Now go have fun. Just stay safe.”

The women held hands, their smiles having returned, and happily skipped off toward the pool and the water slides.

Wyatt chuckled as he sat down in one of the chairs and watched the happy Littles.

His heart was full.

That sweet little girl had captured it.

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The women played for quite a while, and by the time they said goodbye for the evening, Daisy was hungry and tired.

She ran to her room and changed while Wyatt went back to his cabin and did the same. They met up in the main dining room.

“They have dino nuggets!” Daisy said, looking at the food she’d pulled from the buffet. “My favorite.”

She sat at the table across from Wyatt.

“I didn’t know they had dinosaur meat. Huh,” he said wryly.

She rolled her eyes but chuckled.

“At least you gave me a courtesy laugh,” he said.

She grinned. “It was mildly amusing. At best.”

“Hey!” He acted as if he was going to throw a roll at her.

She laughed and stuck out her tongue.

They ate for a few minutes before she said, “I should have known you were headed to Florida to board the Little Star. You gave off so many Daddy vibes back in Georgia.”

“And I should’ve known you were coming here, too, with all those Little vibes,” he said.

“It’s that obvious?”

“Your stuffie was buckled in the front seat.”

She giggled and nodded. “Hedy is my best friend.”

“That’s a pretty name. Is there a story behind it?”

Her mind flashed back to when Evan had asked a similar question. The difference now was that she didn’t mind telling Wyatt one bit. She wanted him to know everything about her.

“Do you know who Hedy Lamarr was?”

“An actress, right?”

“Uh-huh,” Daisy said with a nod. “I love old movies and she’s one of my favorite actresses. I grew up in foster care. Times could be…tough. You know?”

He nodded, encouraging her to go on.

“I’d watch old movies and dream I knew those stars.” She laughed. “I always wanted to hangout with Hedy Lamarr the most. She was so classy and elegant! The local library had a biography and I read and re-read that thing a dozen times. I learned that besides being in some classic films, she also invented things. She even invented a system during World War Two that jammed up the Nazi submarines, so they couldn’t torpedo the Allies.” She shrugged. “She’s kind of my hero.”

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