Series: Paige Michaels
Total pages in book: 49
Estimated words: 45808 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 229(@200wpm)___ 183(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45808 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 229(@200wpm)___ 183(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
Blaze? Tonight? She looked around, feeling panicked. It seemed like he really wanted to go, and she couldn’t blame him. He’d only been the one time. He was probably looking forward to getting to know everyone better, and Blaze was the best place to meet up with all the Daddies.
Nicoya wandered around the room, touching things haphazardly, not really paying attention to anything but the panic growing inside her. She couldn’t describe it and didn’t fully understand why her heart rate had picked up and she was trembling. She loved Blaze. She should want to go.
Needing to think about her weird reaction and feelings, she dropped onto all fours and crawled into the corner behind the rocking chair. She pulled her knees up to her chest, sucked her pacifier ferociously, and set her chin on her knees.
“Niki?”
She glanced up at the sound of her Daddy’s voice. She hadn’t seen him come back in the room, nor had she noticed him drop down low to squat close to her.
“Baby girl, what’s going on?”
She shrugged.
“Can you take your paci out and talk to Daddy? You’ve been out of sorts since I arrived.”
She reluctantly plucked the pacifier from her mouth. She didn’t feel like talking. She only felt like being snuggled and having no responsibilities. “I guess I had another rough day at work,” she conceded, and it was the truth.
“Okay, but you’ve had some pretty difficult days this week, and I’ve never seen you quite like this before. Did something particularly bad happen?”
She shook her head and looked down at her knees. “No.” The truth was she was still processing her feelings herself. That made it hard to explain herself to her Daddy.
“Okay… Do you not want to go to Blaze?”
She shrugged again. “We can go if you want,” she murmured.
He pushed the rocking chair out of the way and crawled closer to her so he could sit facing her. His hands came to her knees. “That’s not convincing. We don’t have to go to Blaze, Baby girl. We can stay home.”
She swallowed and met his gaze. “But if you want to…”
He frowned. “What I want is for my Little girl to be the happiest Little girl on earth. I want my Little girl to know that when she’s not at work, she’s mine to spoil and pamper and baby. What makes me the most happy is making you happy. Going to Blaze is obviously not going to fit that bill tonight, and that’s okay, Niki. It’s more than okay. I’m just wondering why because I’m confused.”
She looked down at her frilly dress and squeezed her thighs tighter around her diaper. Finally, she realized what her problem was and jerked her head back up. “I let myself get too Little tonight for that, Daddy.”
His brow furrowed for a moment and then he relaxed his face and reached out to stroke one of her pigtails. “Ahhh. Now I get it. You like to be a bit older than this at Blaze, and it would be really hard to backtrack to an older age now that you’ve settled in this one for the evening.”
She nodded, sitting up taller. That was it exactly. He understood. And more importantly, she also finally fully grasped why she was feeling so out of herself.
Daddy pulled her into his arms and hugged her tight. “I love you, Baby girl. We don’t ever have to do anything you’re not feeling. We’ll stay in tonight. Daddy will Baby you all evening. How’s that?”
She grinned wide. “Thank you, Daddy.”
“Did you say you’re off work tomorrow?”
She nodded.
“Good because I took the day off too. I heard Tarson say Ellie is secretly working on a new cupcake for the upcoming holidays. Maybe we should plan a trip to Little Cakes?”
She clapped her hands together. “That would be great. I bet other Daddies will be there. You can talk to them and we can hang out a while. Maybe if we’re there very long, we’ll get hungry and need to have a second cupcake.”
He laughed. “Nice try, Baby girl, but no matter what age you wake up feeling tomorrow, Daddy is not going to consent to letting you eat two cupcakes.”
She gave him a huge fake pout. “But we have to get a Maraschino Cherry one, and if there’s a new flavor, we’ll need to try that one too to be polite.”
He laughed harder. “Your reasoning is adorable, but it’s not going to happen.”
She sighed. “Fine,” she grumbled, but inside, she was so grateful to have such an amazing Daddy. She loved him so much. She was the luckiest Little girl in the world.
Chapter Nineteen
“Wait!” Nicoya declared as Axel led her down the strip of storefronts, aiming for Little Cakes.
“What is it?” Axel asked as he came to a stop when she tugged his hand.
She was looking through the display window of a shop, and he lifted his gaze to see the name of the store was Design Magic. He’d heard of it from some of the locals and knew it was a favorite clothing shop for women.