Page 22 of Daddy’s Little Duckling (Ivory Mountain Daddies #1)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
EMMETT
E mmett didn’t expect his night to go like it did. He had planned on coming home from work to Rae and spending the evening playing with her in the nursery.
Never did he think that his Little girl would end up over his lap tonight, but Emmett knew that he couldn’t go back on his word. She had been warned several times before tonight to not run in the house.
He knew that she was excited to see him after he had been gone all day, but that still wasn’t an excuse for her to run in the house.
Emmett made his way into the kitchen to pour himself a glass of scotch before settling on the couch. Lola jumped up and meowed at him before bumping her head against his hand that held his glass.
He gave her what she wanted and scratched behind her ears before she turned and jumped up on the cat tree in the corner. Raelyn has the next day off of work and he plans to spend the whole time focused on her.
It’s not often that he doesn’t go into the office, but any time Emmett can get with Rae, he plans on taking it.
Shooting Miles a text to let him know what the plan would be for tomorrow, he finished the last of his scotch and headed to go snuggle in bed with his darling girl.
Emmett felt something lightly brushing across his chest as he awoke. Peaking his eyes open, he looked down at Rae running her fingers gently through the chest hair he had. She was a sight to see.
Dressed in his shirt, Bruce tucked beneath her arm, and her thumb in her mouth she was absolutely adorable. He really needed to get her a paci because sucking her thumb wasn’t good for her teeth.
That was something they had yet to explore together. He noticed that she was still asleep which meant that he had time to slip out and prepare their breakfast and lay out the things he thinks that they might need for their day today.
Sliding out of bed, he watched his Little girl scrunch her nose at the sudden loss of his body before she settled back down.
He put on a pair of pajama pants and headed into the nursery to pick out Raelyn’s clothes for the day.
Picking out clothes that would hopefully help her ease into a deeper Littlespace, Emmett settled on a soft pink onesie that snaps between the legs and a dark pink ruffled skirt with built in bloomers setting those beside the pull-up he had grabbed moments before.
To finish out the outfit, he grabbed a new paci that was light blue and had a star on the front and attached it to a pink paci clip so that he would be able to secure it onto her clothes for later.
Making his way into the kitchen, he gathered all the things he would need to make for their breakfast of grits with bacon and sausage.
Emmett had been slowly introducing new textures to her diet trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t. After finishing up the meal he grabbed a sippy cup and filled it with milk before heading down the hallway to wake his girl up.
He wasn’t surprised to see that she was already starting to wake up. It was adorable to watch her when she first opened her eyes. With her hair going in all directions and pillow marks on her face, she was still a vision.
“Good morning, my Little Duckling!”
Rae graced him with the sweetest smile and crawled to where he stood at the end of the bed. Holding her hands up, Emmett bent down and lifted her to his hip dropping a quick kiss on her lips.
“I have a whole day planned for you and breakfast is already made. Would you like to get dressed first or go eat?”
She seemed to take a moment before responding “Dressed please.”
Making a quick stop in the bathroom, he carried her over to the toilet pulling down her panties and placing her down to go potty.
He tried to move fast because he knew that if they lingered on the task Rae would start to panic. There had only been a few times that he had helped her with this task.
They had a discussion about how much he wanted to help her and this was something that she was interested in but had been scared to admit to him. Hearing her finish pottying he stood her up and wiped her before pulling her panties back into place .
After they finished washing their hands, Emmett grabbed her toothbrush and got it ready to help her. It made his heart happy that she allowed him to help with such simple tasks.
Dropping a kiss to her lips once everything was done, he picked his Little girl back up into his arms and headed out of the bathroom.
Emmett carried her into the nursery and laid her down on the changing table before securing her to it. The past few times she had been on the table had become easier and easier.
Emmett could tell that she was becoming more comfortable with lying here letting him do all the work to get her ready. He stripped his shirt off her and replaced her panties with the pull up before sliding the onesie over her head and snapping it between her legs.
This was the first time he had dressed her in something like this so Emmett made sure to watch her face for any signs of discomfort or distress. The last thing he wanted to do is cause those feelings in Rae.
After slipping the skirt up and settling it in place on her hips, Emmett sat Rae up and kissed her nose before grabbing the hair brush he kept on the shelf above the changing table and attempted to wrangle her hair into some sort of style.
With hair pulled into braided pigtails that he secured with pink bows, he grabbed the paci he had been keeping out of her line of sight and clipped it to her onesie. Immediately, Raelyn’s eyes widened at the sight of the paci.
“If you don’t want to use it, we don’t have to. I just wanted you to have the option of trying one out if that was something you wanted to do. Plus you tend to suck your thumb at night and this would be a great way to replace that habit.”
“Daddy, I don’t need to try it out. I have a paci already at home that I use.”
He watched the blush spread across her cheeks at her statement. He didn’t want her to feel embarrassed, but he was a little confused as to why she had a paci, but never brought it with her when she spent the night.
“Little girl. Why haven’t you been bringing that with you when you come over?”
“You already have done so many new things with me Daddy. I didn’t want to add something else. Plus, I know that having a paci can sometimes make me feel a lot younger than I normally would go.”
Popping the paci into her mouth Emmett replied “Well, now you will have one here, but I think we need to start moving more of your things here so that you can feel more at home.”
Rae spit the paci out, “That sounds an awful lot like you want me to move in here, Daddy.”
“I would love to move you here. I love waking up with you in my arms and coming home to you playing in the nursery. Plus, Lola gets upset every time you go home and we don’t want her to continue to be upset.”
“Okay, Daddy. I don’t like being away from you anyways. My apartment never felt like home, but your home has from the start.”
Emmett grinned and pressed another kiss on her lips and held her paci back to her lips effectively tabling this conversation for another day.
He would form a plan to rope in Miles and a few of their other friends into helping him pack up her apartment and move everything here. Emmett didn’t want to waste any more time and wanted to move her in as quickly as he could.
Bringing her into the kitchen he settled her at the bar before reheating the breakfast and setting it infront of her. Emmett made a mental note to see about getting a custom made highchair for Rae, it would keep her safe while she ate.
Watching her eat, Emmett shot off a quick reminder text to Miles about how he would be unavailable for the day unless it was an emergency. He barely held back the grin that tried to cross his face when he watched Rae pick up her sippy and take a big swallow of the plain milk he had given her.
Her nose scrunch was adorable every time he saw it. This was something else that they had been working on since the original fiasco over the plain milk.
He didn’t think that she would ever be totally okay with drinking it, but they had worked out an agreement that she could have one glass of chocolate or strawberry milk after she had her first glass of plain.
It had been going well so far, but not until after she had gotten lines a couple times about throwing a fit when she didn’t get her way.
Once she was done, he cleaned up the dishes and started the dishwasher before grabbing Rae and leading her down the hallway to the nursery.
Rae wasted no time speed walking over to the toy box before not so gracefully dropping onto her bottom to dig out whatever toy she wanted to play with today. Chuckling he made his way over to the rocking chair and settled in to watch her.