Page 16 of Daddy’s Little Duckling (Ivory Mountain Daddies #1)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
RAELYN
T he closer it got to the end of her shift, Rae started to feel all sorts of emotions, ranging from excitement to uneasiness, imagining what Emmett might expect from her.
She had been trying to shake the nerves all night long with no success. She knew that she shouldn’t worry because Emmett didn’t seem like the kind of man that would expect something from her.
He wasn’t anything like the boys she had talked to and dated before. She called them boys because Emmett was the definition of a gentleman, where those boys were horrible and didn’t know how to treat a woman right.
Grabbing her things from her locker, she skipped outside the employee entrance looking around for Emmett. When she saw him leaning against his truck, she couldn’t help the grin that crossed her face.
Raelyn bounced on her toes giggling before skipping towards where he was standing. She tried her hardest to contain the excitement she was feeling, but she knew that she hadn’t succeeded in her efforts because she noticed Emmett grin and slightly shake his head at her antics.
Oops, guess she wasn’t the best at keeping her emotions at bay. She hoped that that wouldn’t be a problem in the future because sometimes a girl needed to keep her thoughts and feelings to herself.
“All ready to go, Little one?”
Nodding her head, she skipped to her car and climbed in. She waited for Emmett to pull out before following close behind him. They didn’t seem to drive for very long before they turned down a long dirt road.
Parking her car beside his truck, her door opened before she even had a chance to unbuckle her seat belt. Emmett leaned over her and clicked the buckle before holding out his hand to her.
“Where’s your bag, darling?”
She turned to grab her overnight bag before handing it over to Emmett. Sliding her hand into his, she followed him inside.
Emmett led her through the house giving her a small tour of the place before stopping at a guest room to put her things down. Rae couldn’t decide if she wanted to stay in the guest room, but wasn’t going to push her luck.
She was just happy to be here. She noticed that there was one door that he didn’t open or mention. It was beside the master bedroom and she was curious to know what was in it.
Walking into the living room she noticed something furry sitting on the back of the couch that she must have overlooked when they first walked by.
“OH MY GOODNESS, YOU HAVE A KITTY!” Rae exclaimed, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
She heard Emmett chuckle before moving to introduce them.
“Raelyn, this is Lola. She's an eight month old maine coon that I rescued about two months ago from a box in the alleyway behind my office.”
Rae had always wanted a cat growing up, but her mom was deathly allergic to them so they were never allowed to have one.
When she finally moved into her own space, the apartment that she rented had no pets allowed. That was probably for the best since Rae knew that she didn’t have the spare money to own a cat.
They were expensive and she refused to have something that she couldn’t take care of in the proper way it needed.
So she resigned herself to the fact that she would most likely never have the opportunity to own one and she was okay with that.
“Hi Lola! I’m so excited to meet you!” Rae said as she slowly settled on the couch beside her.
Lola raised her head to look at Rae. She studied her for a second before stretching and moving towards Rae for some cuddles.
Petting the pretty furball, Rae couldn’t help but know that they were going to become the best of friends. She turned to look at Emmett and loved the look of contentment she saw in his eyes. She knew that he was thinking the same thing as her.
“Before we move any farther, there is a serious conversation we need to have, Little girl. I won’t push you to talk about things you’re not ready to talk about, but we do need to talk.”
“I understand. I want to talk about it all, but I will admit that I am kind of nervous about everything.”
“There’s nothing that you need to be worried about, babygirl. I promise that I won’t force you to talk or explain anything to me that you don’t feel comfortable doing.”
Emmett settled in on the couch and pulled her to sit on the spot beside him. She was so grateful that Lola stayed in her lap.
Running her fingers through the cat’s fur helped ease her anxiety and the sweet furball didn’t seem to want to be anywhere else.
“I’ll start, Little girl. If at any time you want to stop this conversation, you can say so.”
Rae nodded her head and waited for Emmett to continue.
“On our date I mentioned that I was a Daddy to you. Do you know what that means?”
Raelyn considered lying to him. She doesn’t tell anyone about that part of herself, but she knew that she would never find a Daddy to call her own if she never put herself out there and took the risk.
“Yes, I know what a Daddy is. I’ve read books about it. I started reading them in high school.”
Emmett grinned at her and she couldn’t help but feel slightly woeful. She knew that she should tell him about all the trauma that surrounds that time of her life.
It would be important information for him to know. She just couldn’t bring herself to weigh down the night by bringing up the trauma that she had gone through and spoil the calm atmosphere that they had formed.
Deciding that she wanted to wait, Rae pushed aside the thoughts that were brought up and put a smile on her face to hide what was going on in her head.
“I know this is new and we barely know each other, but Rae I know that you are meant to be my Little girl.”
“There’s no way that you could know that. You don’t know me well enough.”
“My gut tells me that you’re mine and I don’t make it a habit to ignore what my gut says.”
Rae couldn’t argue with his statement. She too knew that deep down inside that Emmett was meant to be her Daddy.
He was meant to be hers and for once she was ready to take her life into her own hands and make the choice that she wanted without worrying about what could happen if it went wrong.
“I knew there was something different about you when we first met.” Rae replied to him.
“I know that we are just getting to know each other, but communication is very important in any relationship, especially one that has a power exchange. I would love to sit and talk about things that you like and dislike, but we can table that until tomorrow if you don’t feel like you are up to it right now. ”
Rae thought about his statement for a few minutes. While she was tired and could fall asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, she knew that if they put off the entire conversation she would just continue to stress about it all. It was better if they went ahead and talked over some of it tonight.
“I don’t want to wait. I would rather have it tonight, if that’s okay with you.”
“That’s more than okay. I took the liberty of printing out my list of soft and hard limits so that you would be able to see everything that I am okay with as a Daddy.”
Rae’s eyes opened wide. She had been in a few kinky relationships before, but none of them had ever taken the time to write out their limits.
They had just gone with the flow of things and hoped for the best. Maybe that was why none of them worked out longer than a few weeks with the exception of one of them.
“I won’t sit here and read over everything with you, but you can take this copy and when you are ready you can read it.
I also printed out a blank one for you that I would love for you to fill out so that I have a better idea of how to take care of you.
The last thing I want is to cause you harm in any way. ”
She loved that he was thinking of her desires and feelings. Accepting the papers he handed her, she quickly glanced over the blank one and noticed that it was the standard limits list .
She had filled out a similar one before online when she had joined a kink friendly dating site. Her account there didn’t last long before she started getting overwhelmed and a little freaked out, but she kept her list that she had completed so that would make this process a whole lot easier.
“One last thing I want to talk with you about tonight, before this goes any further, is a safe word. While we will probably never do extremely intense scenes, I want you to know that you have a way to stop everything that is happening with no repercussions. This can be anything from a conversation to a punishment. Your physical and mental health is my top priority.”
This was something else that she was familiar with because it was always present in the books that she read.
Rae knew that it was important to talk about and have a safe word in place just in case there was ever a need to use it.
“I have read about safe words in my books, so I know how they work. Most of the books I read use the stoplight system – green for everything is okay, yellow for things need to slow down and we need to talk, and red for everything needs to stop immediately.”
“That’s right, Little one. I personally prefer the stoplight system because it is easy and recognized no matter where you go, but if you have a safe word you would rather use I am okay with that as well.”
“No, Sir. The stoplight system is perfectly fine with me. I would worry that I would forget the word I was supposed to use, so the colors would be the easiest for me.”
Emmett nodded his head at her response, blew out a breath, and smiled at her.
“First, I want to know that you are okay with our conversation. Second, do I have your consent to the idea of me being your Daddy? ”
Rae nodded her head at his inquiry.
“Do you have any other questions or concerns you want to go over tonight? If not, I would love to show you something else.”
Rae shook her head at his question.
“Remember, I need you to give me the words sweetheart.”
“Yes, Sir. I’m okay with that. I can’t think of any triggers or concerns that we need to discuss at this moment, but I would like the opportunity to review your limits list with a clear and rested mind and provide you with mine.
Can we revisit this conversation in a few days once we have read over everything and have a discussion? ”
“We can definitely do that and I am very proud of you for seeing your limits currently and expressing those instead of continuing. Sir is fine for now, but one day soon I hope you will call me Daddy. Now come, let me show you a surprise I have for you.”