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Butch shook his head. “I haven’t, but she said that I wouldn’t believe her if she told me. I don’t think she would have believed him if he’d told her his name was something else. We knew everyone in town, and the fact that I know him just means that whatever she said was his name.”
But Butch didn’t know many people called Ed. Maybe it was a nickname for someone, and he just needed to think harder about it.
“You continue to think on who that could possibly be, and we’ll look into these people,” Reaper replied. “We’re going to find him, and we’re going to make him pay for everything he’s done. I know you get first dibs on the man, but after you, I want to have a go at him. I want him to suffer even more.”
“If he survives, you can have a go at him.” Butch’s anger was increasing the more he thought about everything that had happened to Raelynn. He didn’t even know the full extent of it, and he was already wanting to pulverize the man.
“Tell Little Miss Rae that everyone here misses her and can’t wait for her to come back and grace us with her smiles,” Reaper said before he hung up.
Butch ran his hands through his hair as he stared at his phone. Everyone was getting a little too comfortable with Raelynn. She was his; nobody else’s. If he had it his way, he would lock her up in a room and never let her out. Butch wanted Rae, his Little Fairy, to be his alone.
Raelynn started whimpering, and his head snapped up. Butch rushed toward her, looking over every inch of her body before his eyes settled on her mouth and the missing pacifier. A smile split on his face as he looked around before spotting the pacifier near her neck.
“Such a silly Little Fairy,” he whispered as he gave her the nipple. “My silly Little Fairy.”
She immediately settled down as she started to suckle on the nipple again, and Butch just watched her.
“Precious,” he mumbled as his hand settled on her stomach.
CHAPTER 15
RAELYNN
Over a week had passed since she had gotten the cochlear implant activated, and things were going better than she thought. Daddy still had to remind her to wear her cochlear implant throughout the day.
“Reaper and Levi are coming over in a couple of minutes. Is it all right if Deccan and Echo come as well, or do you want to leave it at those two?” Daddy asked.
She shrugged. Rae still wasn’t good around a lot of noise. It overwhelmed her, and she couldn’t hear the person she was talking to very well.
“How about we just do Reaper and Levi and then another day, Deccan and his girl can come over?” Daddy suggested.
“I think that would be good,” she whispered. “Not that I don’t want to see them, but I’m worried it’ll be too loud and I’ll hide.”
Just the thought of them coming over already had her wanting to pretend to be asleep before they got here.
Daddy nodded. “And I don’t want you to run away, so we’ll keep it small in the beginning. As you grow more comfortable, then we’ll explore more… have more people come and visit, or we can go and visit them.”
“I don’t know,” she whispered.
The thought of being in a room with a lot of people was making her chest all tingly and nervous.
“Little Fairy, you have nothing to be worried about. I said, only when you’re comfortable with meeting more than two people at a time. I’m not going to force you into anything.”
“Sorry,” she whispered. “My mind just started to think before I could stop it.”
Daddy cupped her face and brought his lips to her forehead. “You have nothing to be sorry for. I just wanted you to know it’s up to you. Maybe I’ll push you a little to consider meeting more than two people, but that’s only if I think you’re absolutely ready for it. But you’re going to be the one who gives the. Understand?”
“Yes, Daddy.”
A smile blossomed on his face. “Now, why don’t we go get some drinks before they come here?”
“When ar—” but she was cut off as there was a noise from the front of the house.
“I brought you a present,” Reaper announced as he walked into the house.
Her eyes lit up as she bounced on her feet, waiting for him to show it to him.
Reaper pulled out a gray stuffed koala.
