Page 18 of Daddy’s Little Duckling (Ivory Mountain Daddies #1)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

RAELYN

S tretching Rae knew something was different immediately once she started to wake. This wasn’t her normal blanket. The blanket at home wasn’t the greatest and she always woke up and had to shower first thing because the material of it always made her skin crawl.

The urge to do that was absent this morning. The sheets and blanket that caressed along her body felt as smooth as butter and she didn’t want to move. The urge from her bladder was proving to be a problem she couldn’t ignore for much longer.

Forcing herself to leave the comfort of the heavenly bed that she slept in last night, Rae slipped into the ensuite and used the potty before washing her hands and looking at herself in the mirror.

Puzzled, she didn’t know where the shirt came from that she was wearing since she knows that isn’t what she brought to sleep in, but the smell of it could only mean one thing.

It was Emmett’s and he must have dressed her in it before putting her to bed. A blush crept across her cheeks at the thought that he saw her in such a state.

She really hoped that she didn’t do anything embarrassing. Rae knew that she had a habit of sucking her thumb in her sleep.

That was why she had her paci. It was so much better for her to suck on instead of her thumb and she had been using it for years.

The nipple on it had been replaced multiple times because when she was stressed she would chew. The chewing led to the nipple being popped and then she would have to use it in its deflated state until she could save up the money to replace it.

There had been a time she went six months with the nipple being popped because there never seemed to be enough money for her to buy a new one.

That had been a very trying time and Rae had suffered from many jaw aches and headaches because the paci no longer fit in her mouth like it was supposed to.

Not wanting to waste any more time away from her Daddy, Rae slipped out of the room in search of him. Following the smell in the air, she found him in the kitchen.

Her eyes bugged out and jaw dropped at the sight of him standing at the stove without a shirt on. There wasn’t an ounce of fat on that man’s body and for a brief second she felt a sense of dread rush upon her.

How he could ever be okay with someone like her, she would never understand. Rae wasn’t anything special.

“Good morning, Emmett!”

Emmett turned towards her at the announcement of her presence. Grinning, he walked over and dropped a sweet kiss on her lips before moving back towards what he was working on at the stove .

“Good morning, my precious girl. Did you sleep alright last night?”

“I did! I didn’t want to leave the cloud of a bed that I slept in. It was heavenly and the blankets on it are to die for.”

Rae spotted Lola sitting on the floor of the kitchen and made her way over to give the kitty a few scratches behind the ear.

She was quickly becoming attached to the little furball and loved to pet her. She noticed that her anxiety wasn’t as bad when she could run her fingers through Lola’s fur.

“I am so glad that you had a good night's rest. Breakfast is almost done. Why don’t you go wash up and then come sit down at the bar.”

Rae did as she was told and moments after settling down, Emmett placed a plate of pancakes in front of her and a sippy cup, before settling down at the bar with his own.

They weren’t just any pancakes though. These were in the shape of a flower and were plated on a duck shaped plate.

It reminded her of the animal plates she always saw on the infomercials growing up, but never had the privilege of owning.

Her parents always told her that they were pointless and eventually grew tired of her asking about them.

Grabbing the childlike fork with cartoon ducks printed along the handle of it that he had placed beside her, Rae dug into the pancakes like she hadn’t had a meal in four days.

The pancakes tasted amazing and nothing like the store bought mix that she sometimes was able to splurge on.

Raelyn grabbed the sippy cup, only hesitating for a minute before tipping it back and taking a big swallow.

“YUCKIE!”

Startled, Emmett looked at her perplexed while he waited for her to finish swallowing the drink before asking her “What’s wrong, sweetheart? ”

“It’s milk. Milk is yuckie and I don’t like it at all.” She paused for a second, “Well, I don’t like plain milk, but chocolate milk or even better strawberry milk is amazing.”

She didn’t think that the laugh that bubbled out of his chest was funny. Who liked plain milk? It was truly an abomination to the world and should be banned from all countries.

Well maybe Lola did, but she was a cat so of course she would prefer plain milk. Placing the offending cup to the side, Rae side-eyed Emmett before continuing to eat her pancakes, as if her world wasn’t just turned upside down by the offending beverage.

“Plain milk is very healthy for you, Little girl. You will drink it often to grow big and strong.”

Rae scoffed at his remark before rolling her eyes. Emmett had a rude awakening coming if he thought that she would ever willingly drink plain milk. She might do a lot of things, but that will not be one of them.

“I will allow the chocolate milk this morning since there wasn’t prior conversation about your apparent distaste for plain milk, but listen to me well. This will not be a common occurrence. Chocolate or strawberry milk will be saved as a treat for good Little girls who listen to their Daddy.”

She watched Emmett move across to the cabinet and saw him pull down a container of chocolate milk mix and scoop a few small spoonfuls into her sippy before replacing the cap and shaking it to make sure it was all dispersed in the sippy.

Rae took the sippy he held out to her and took a big swallow of the nectar of the gods.

“Ahh, so much better.”

Rae watched Emmett battle the grin that snuck its way across his face at her dramatics. She had a right to be dramatic. Honestly, no sane person likes plain milk and Rae had always said that she could be a tad bit crazy .

“Alright Little Duckling, what would you like to do today? We can go out and play at the local park or we can stay in and play with the toys you found inside the toy box last night.”

Rae didn’t really feel like sharing Emmett with the outside world right now and she never let her Little side out in public because there was too much that could go wrong.

Pointing down the hallway to where she knew her nursery was, she waited until she knew that Emmett understood what she wanted before getting up and dashing down the hall.

“No running in the house Little girl!!”

Slowing her steps, Raelyn turned around and gave him a cheeky smile before continuing towards the nursery. She couldn’t help but stop at the changing table again to stare at all that was there.

She had never used pull ups before, but the interest was always there. Rae had never been brave enough to purchase any for herself and she didn’t know if she could ask Emmett to fulfill that fantasy for her.

Raelyn was still standing and staring at the table in a trance when she felt Emmett’s hands brush down her arms. Too lost in the thoughts swirling around in her mind, she hadn’t heard him walk into the room.

“Are you interested, Little one?”

“Umm….”

She couldn’t bring herself to voice what was in her head. She didn’t want him to feel like he had to do something like that with her if he didn’t want to.

During her quick glance at his limits list last night she knew that this wasn’t a hard limit for him and that he would be willing to explore it with her.

“Before you try to come up with some kind of lie that I can see you formulating in your mind right now, you know that I would never ask you if I wasn’t interested in doing it with you.

I bought the stuff because I didn’t know what age your Little might be.

It would be a pleasure to take care of you in that way sweetheart, but I understand if you don’t trust me enough yet to test the waters. ”

“I trust you Emmett. I just didn’t want you to feel pressured to do anything you didn’t want to do. If it’s okay, I would love to try that with you.”

Emmett spun her around before lifting her and lying her down and securing her with a strap across her belly. Suddenly a wave of embarrassment washed over Rae, but before she could continue to focus on it she felt something soft be placed in her hands.

Looking down she grinned at the sloth stuffie that Emmett had given her. It was like he knew exactly what she needed at that moment.

Rae preoccupied her mind by talking to the stuffie, who she decided was named Bitsy, and tried not to focus on the movement she could feel Emmett making across the room.

She felt something be placed beside her before feeling the shirt she was wearing slipping off her body. Emmett didn’t pause or ponder at all during the task of changing her.

He simply slipped her panties down and replaced them with a pull up before sliding a pair of light pink leggings, with a tutu attached to them, up and settling them in place on her waist.

Emmett unbuckled her and sat her up before slipping a lavender colored shirt over her head. Looking down she grinned at the pretty sun wearing sunglasses on the front with the words Daddy’s sunshine written below it before running her hands down the material.

Once again, Emmett managed to amaze her again by finding something that didn’t make her want to peel the skin from her body.

Skipping over to the toy box, after Emmett helped her off the changing table, she slid to her knees and started pulling out the toys she wanted to play with first.