Total pages in book: 74
Estimated words: 71497 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71497 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
“Smart Daddy.” I kissed his cheek as he helped me not fall when I stepped out of my pants and undies.
“That would be more believable if you’d stopped giggling when you said it.” Daddy’s pout was so funny he made me laugh lots and lots. “Yep, not really believable, cutie.”
I tried to look innocent but he sighed and looked very stern. “I’m very good with puzzles.”
Daddy seemed to be talking to himself, so I didn’t interrupt as he helped me into the tub. “Yes, this is just a big 3D puzzle. I can do that.”
As I scooped up the bubbles, Daddy sat down beside me and picked up the toys in my basket. “Toys everywhere.”
Yep.
Toys in the bubbles too because Daddy dumped them in the tub. “Duckies.”
Finding my dragon duckie, I held it up for Daddy. “No chomp chomp.”
Daddy laughed and shook his head. “The goose conversation makes so much more sense now.”
“Feathers are yucky.” I pretended to shiver. “No geese.”
Groaning and being silly, Daddy made a face. “No geese. Please, no geese. Ugh, I’m a bad Daddy. I can’t tell you what to eat.”
I was so special, Daddy found something new to worry about for me.
“No chomp chomp feathers, Daddy.” I was special but Daddy worried enough. “I don’t like feathers. I like Daddy dinners.”
Daddy deflated like a balloon. “I’m very glad you like Daddy dinners. I’ll cook all the meat you want as long as you don’t bring home a dead goose.”
No feathers for Daddy.
“I’ll be a very good dragon, Daddy.” I made my duck squeak to make Daddy laugh. “No feathers.”
“You’re a very good dragon, cutie.” Daddy leaned over the tub and kissed my cheek. “But once you’re done playing, we’re going to make you a clean dragon.”
Then we’d play find the jammies.
That was going to be just as much fun as playing with my bubbles and toys.
“I’m going to ignore that evil villain giggle you just let out. Yep, Daddy’s not going to notice that at all. He’s also not going to start trying to figure out where your little clothes are.” Daddy looked around the room like he was being sneaky, but I could tell he was trying to be smart.
“Yep, Daddy’s not even trying to find the dead space in the walls or where the room isn’t the right size.” Daddy wasn’t looking but he was frowning. “Daddy should’ve been going through more of the other rooms. I don’t even know what’s on the other side of this wall.”
Daddy said he wasn’t looking while I got my bath but he frowned and thought and frowned and thought and even started using my toys to not-picture the house. “No, that’s got to be a bedroom. I remember a window over there.”
By the time Daddy had me all played and all cleaned, he looked like a TV detective. “I’m going to figure it out, cutie.”
He was so silly.
“You’re my smart Daddy.” I kissed his cheek to look cute as he wrapped the towel around me. I couldn’t look like I was trying to make Daddy crazy. “You can do it.”
He snorted…maybe he knew I was trying to drive him crazy?
“Alright, we’re going to figure this out.” He kept one arm wrapped around me and took me over to the bed. “Hop up, cutie. I’ll be right back. Daddy has to do some math.”
Daddy had a tape measure in his car.
Yep, I had to keep him ’cause tools were wonderful.
“Alright.” Thinking, frowning Daddy was back and he was even using a little notebook to write numbers down.
It was even more fun than watching Pete’s Dragon.
Daddy was amazing.
“There’s at least three feet missing from this space, maybe four depending on how thick the walls really are in this part of the house.” Daddy was solving the mystery of the bedroom like he was in a detective book.
I wanted to bounce and tell him how close he was, but I was very quiet and even sat on my hands because they kept waving around without permission.
They were very excited but very naughty.
“So downstairs you used a lever of some sort to release the door. You or your family would’ve built it. I really don’t think you were ordering weird shit off Amazon to make the secret hiding places.” Nodding to himself, Daddy started pressing on the wall, pushing at the different boards that made up the wainscoting.
The half panels on the walls looked like they were one piece, but he was right, they weren’t.
More wiggles kept wanting to escape and I thought about burying myself under the pillows, but I couldn’t even hide my face because I wanted to see what would happen when he found it.
Oh.
“Ha! Got it.” Daddy pushed the panel just right and the whole section of the wall slid out to reveal the door.
He sat down, smiling and looking very proud of himself as he rolled the barn door-looking piece open. “This is a very short closet, cutie.”