Page 24 of Daddy’s Little Duckling (Ivory Mountain Daddies #1)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
RAELYN
S everal days had passed since the phone call with Amanda and Emmett occurred. The morning following what Rae was referring to as ‘The Incident’, she felt anxious walking into work.
She knew that Emmett dealt with the issue, but the fear of facing some kind of retaliation for what happened was a feeling she was struggling with.
There had been no hiccups at work though. No one gave her any looks, there were no whispers in the hallways, and Amanda was friendly with her for once. It was like Rae had stepped into a whole other world.
It was her next day off and Olivia had texted her the night before asking if they could meet up for coffee. She apparently had something important that she wanted to talk to Rae about.
Knowing Olivia, the important conversation could be about the deal she found the other day at the grocery store. She could be very dramatic at times and everything was important in her eyes, but Rae loved it.
They met up at the coffee shop near work since that was half way between both of them. Walking up to the counter, Rae placed her order with the barista.
She always ordered the same thing each time she went to a coffee shop. A vanilla oatmilk latte with a blueberry scone was her absolute favorite and no matter where she went she knew that it would be a trusted thing to have.
Rae spotted Olivia sitting in the back of the coffee shop holding her own coffee cup with an apple turnover sitting beside the cup. Waving her hand and making her way over, Rae slid into the booth across from Olivia.
“Hi, my love! I’m so excited to spend this time with you today. I honestly needed a girls day, honestly, it’s been a rough few days.”
“Me too! I have so much to tell you.”
Before Rae could respond, she heard her name called across the shop. She went and grabbed her coffee and blueberry scone.
One thing she loved about this coffee shop was that they used porcelain coffee cups unlike the big chain places that were everywhere. The best thing about shopping local was the ability to support the little people, but also getting to experience little things that most of the time got overlooked.
“Okay, so what is it that was so important that you needed to tell me?”
“I may have met a guy. An insanely hot guy who is honestly probably so far out of my league, but I still can’t seem to shake the thoughts of him even though our interaction was over a week ago.”
Rae grinned. It wasn’t often that Olivia got worked up about a guy. Her history with men and relationships in general was shaky and Rae didn’t know a lot.
There was a lot about Olivia’s past that Rae didn’t know, but she did know that Olivia struggled a lot with feelings towards men in general. So if she was bringing up this man he must have really left an impression on her.
Rae was kind of surprised that it took her over a week before Olivia mentioned him to her. They had seen each other multiple times over the course of the week at work. It wouldn’t be the first time that they had that type of discussion while at work.
“EEEEEEK! That’s so exciting! Tell me more.”
“So, I was coming home from work on Tuesday afternoon. For once I didn’t have to work a twelve hour shift that I normally would work, so I had time to stop in at Target to grab a few things. I was walking out of the store when I walked directly into him. Not my proudest moment.”
Rae busted out laughing. It wasn’t that long ago that she had done the same thing with Daddy.
Looking at how that ended for her, Rae could only hope that Olivia had the same fate. Bouncing up and down in the seat, she tried to stay patient for Olivia to continue the story. T
his was so exciting. Ever since finding Daddy, Rae wanted everyone to be just as happy.
“Unfortunately, we both know that I am not the most graceful person. There was no stopping the fall that was coming. I landed right on my bottom and let out a cry that I was not proud of. I heard the immediate response of the behemoth that bulldozed over me and then immediately I was lifted up into the air.”
The look of shock on Olivia’s face was so funny. Rae could picture all of this in her head like a movie.
“I cannot believe that you literally walked into a man, but at the same time I can because we both know that neither of us are good at walking. We also always somehow end up having trouble find us.” Rae replied to Olivia.
“The only thing that sucks is that after he made sure I was okay, we parted ways. I didn’t even get his name!
He slipped into the crowd before I had a chance to stop him and ask.
This is why I don’t understand why I am still thinking about him over a week later.
I just can’t seem to get his eyes out of my mind.
They were so different from anything I had seen before in my life, Rae.
One of his eyes was a dark emerald green color while the other one was as blue as the ocean. ”
Rae’s eyes widened at that comment, but she schooled her face before Olivia could catch onto the thoughts that were running through her mind.
There was no way that it was who she thought it was, but she couldn’t help but get excited at the idea of Miles being the man that her best friend was currently fawning over.
It was rare for someone to have two different colored eyes. Rae researched it when she first met Miles because she hadn’t met anyone with that condition before.
Heterochromia only affected fewer than two hundred thousand people in the United States. She loved picking on Miles because she explained that he had to be half dog or cat because those were the animals that heterochromia affected the most.
Rae had a mission to complete now. She needed to find out if Miles was Olivia’s mystery man and if he was it was up to her to play matchmaker. No one else was going to do it and it worked out perfectly that Rae was already trying to formulate a plan to get them together.
Keeping these thoughts to herself, Rae continued to listen to her best friend talk about this man before switching conversations.
Olivia had helped Rae unpack her things after she moved into Emmett’s house a few weeks ago, but they had yet to be able to spend time at the house together just relaxing. Rae could really use a playdate with her best friend soon, so she brought up the idea to Olivia .
They planned a playdate for a few weeks from now trying to plan around both of their work schedules. She now had something to look forward to and hopefully Rae would know before then if Miles was the mystery man.
Knowing that Miles is a Daddy and that Olivia is a Little who desperately needs one, Rae hoped that she could be the one to help bring them together.
Rae’s phone beeped in her bag with the tone that she had set for Daddy. Feeling excited she pulled out her phone and read the text before turning to Olivia and explaining that Daddy was headed home and was bringing her dinner.
Walking out, Rae gave Olivia a hug before heading to the car to make the drive home.