Page 26 of Daddy's Little Duckling

“Uh, that doesn’t explain why you spanked me. That wasn’t nice, mister.”

“Do you want to try that statement again? Because Daddy knows that his Little girl wouldn’t dare speak to him in such a naughty way. There is sass and there is attitude and right now Little Duckling you are riding a very fine line between the two.”

“I’m sorry Daddy. Can you please tell me why I got popped? I didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Is it nice to roll your eyes at Daddy, Raelyn Jane?”

Feeling chastised, Rae casted her eyes to her lap and began to fiddle with her fingers.

“No, Sir,” she mumbled so quietly that a mouse couldn’t have even heard her.

“What was that?”

“No, Sir, it’s not nice.”

She felt Daddy grasp her chin before he raised it to look in her eyes. “Next time you will think twice about rolling your eyes at Daddy or the pop that you just got will look like nothing compared to the spanking that you will receive.”

Nodding her head quickly, Rae turned and looked at Miles. She expected to see a look of disgust on his face, but what she found wasn’t what she thought she would have seen. Miles looked at them with longing as if he was jealous of what just occurred.

“Raelyn, I am so sorry for walking in unannounced today. It has never been a problem before when I showed up to see Emmett and I didn’t even think twice about coming inside.”

Rae could tell that this whole situation really upset him. She didn’t want him to be sad about it. It’s not like he could have known that she was here, let alone that she was playing in Littlespace.

“It’s okay Mr. Miles. You couldn’t have known and I can tell that you wouldn’t ever want to do anything to upset me.”

Miles graced her with a megawatt smile and she couldn’t help but grin back at him.

“What’s this Mr. Miles business? You can call me Miles or Uncle M if you’re in Littlespace.”

“Okay, Miles. I would like that.”

Rae didn’t think that she would ever recover from the embarrassment from this morning, but the more that Miles hung out around the house that afternoon the more that she felt comfortable around him.

It was interesting to see Daddy and Miles interacting together. She could tell that the two men had a close relationship. It made her think of her relationship with Olivia.

Rae couldn’t help the grin that snuck its way onto her face when the thought of Olivia and Miles popped in her head. She just knew that they would be perfect together, but now she had to find some way to make that happen.

She wanted her best friend to have a Daddy to call her own and she was going to find a way to make that happen.

“What's got you smiling over there, Little bit?”

“Oh nothing, Daddy. I’m just really happy to be here.”

Rae knew that she couldn’t mention anything to Daddy about her idea of playing matchmaker. She knew that he wouldn’t approve of it.

It was going to be all up to her to make that happen. Whatever consequences that she faced afterwards would totally be worth it if it meant that their best friends would be happy together.

She pushed the thoughts from her mind, for now she didn’t want Daddy to continue to ask anymore questions.

Miles stayed for dinner that evening and Daddy ordered pizza for them all. Daddy didn’t think that pineapples belonged on pizza, but Rae already knew that sometimes Daddy could have poor judgment.

That’s why she had gotten plain milk this morning. She shivered at the thought of that and pushed the memory from her mind.

Miles, though, loved pineapple on his pizza and between the two of them, they convinced Daddy to buy one. Of course he still ordered just a plain pepperoni pizza for himself, but he did try one piece of their pizza.

Baby steps were being made and Rae knew that one day she would eventually convince him that her way of thinking was the best.

She knew that it would work in her favor because then she wouldn’t have to ever worry about plain milk.

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