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Doc cracked a smile. Your Daddy is very good at observing you and figuring out what’s wrong.

“How did you know?” She turned to Butch as Doc walked out of the room. “He’s also not my Daddy.”

Yet, but she desperately wanted him to be. Rae didn’t know whether she wanted to commit to being in a relationship with him when she didn’t know whether he was going to get hurt because of her.

Soon. Soon you’re going to call me Daddy again, and you’ll be my Little Fairy. But I’ll patiently wait for you, no matter how long it takes.

Her cheeks turned pink. It was so tempting to call him Daddy right now, but she knew that once she did out loud, everything would change.

“How did you know I was dizzy?” she asked once again, ignoring everything he just wrote.

Because I know you. I know your symptoms and tics when you get nauseous or you’re dizzy or you’re too hot or too cold. I. Know. You. He wrote.

Rae opened and closed her mouth several times as he started to write on the whiteboard again.

I know that you were going to try to hide the fact that you were dizzy, but I wasn’t going to let you get away with it. You are far too important to me not to notice these small things.

“I… I don’t want to talk anymore,” she whispered, looking away from him. Rae could faintly hear him chuckling, and it was music to her ears.

CHAPTER 8

RAELYNN

Rae groaned as she rolled to her left side. Someone was gently patting her back in a soothing way, almost sending her back to sleep, but she didn’t want to go back to sleep. She wanted to figure out where she was and why she was so tired all of a sudden.

Cracking her eyes open, she saw Butch sitting right next to her, his hand outstretched. He was the one patting her back.

“D-Daddy?” she whispered as she moved her right arm.

Daddy moved and started to write on the whiteboard.

Hi there, Little Fairy. How are you feeling? Do you need or want anything?

“You,” she pitifully said. “I just want you close by. I’m so exhausted.”

Tears pricked her eyes, and her nose got stuffie as she looked up at Daddy. He gave her a small smile as he wiped away the single tear that ran down her face.

I’m right here, and I’m not going anywhere. If you need anything, let me know. The surgery went well, and he said you’ll feel exhausted for the first several days, both mentally and physically.

“Good,” she groggily said. “Drink and nap?”

Daddy stood up, but she grabbed onto his hand, not wanting him to go anywhere. He’d just told her he wasn’t going to leave her, and yet he looked like he was going to leave.

“Stay,” she demanded. “Daddy go nowhere.”

Rae was not in her right mind. She knew she shouldn’t be calling him Daddy right now when they hadn’t talked about it, but her Little was slowly peeking out as exhaustion took over. She was just going to have to deal with the consequences when she was fully awake.

Daddy motioned with his hands on his phone as he sat down. Raelynn immediately relaxed into the bed. Closing her eyes calmly, she kept her hand on his as she waited for the drink to come. Daddy gently ran his knuckles against her cheek, and her eyes fluttered open.

He was holding a baby bottle, and she couldn’t help but have her cheeks heat at the thought of using it. Even when they were in high school and together as Rae and Butch and Little Fairy and Daddy, they had never used a baby bottle. She had never been brave enough to tell him that she was interested in it got closer to him leaving. They had used sippy cups before, so she wouldn’t spill whenever she was drinking in either one of their rooms.

Rae hadn’t wanted to be the reason to hold him back from doing what he wanted. She had a feeling that if he knew that her Little regressed and she became non-verbal, that he wouldn’t have left, and then she would have had this guilt inside her. But at the same time, she wondered if she had told him, if her life would have been better in some ways.

Daddy’s going to feed you with the bottle, and then you can sleep. When you wake up again, we’ll go potty, and then relax in bed more.

“Okie,” she mumbled.

Daddy carefully helped her move, so he was holding her head against his arm. She opened her mouth and closed her eyes as she started to suckle on the nipple, tasting the deliciousness of chocolate milk. It felt natural.