26. Chapter Twenty-Six
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
MAYLEE
T wo days had passed since Daddy had come to take care of her—two days she didn’t remember well. All she knew was she got some of the best snuggles and cuddles of her life. She never wanted to be sick again, but if she was, she wanted Daddy to be with her.
Maylee was feeling much better, but she still felt a little bit sick. She had a little freak-out this morning when she realized she had missed work and hadn’t told her boss. That was until Daddy said he had taken care of it, meaning he had texted her boss, and she was grateful for that. Her boss wouldn’t have fired her, but he might have been angry, and she didn’t want that. But she had been so sick that if Ezra hadn’t been in town, she probably would have made her boss angry.
Daddy has been a lifesaver. Without him, she might not have felt this good on the third day of being sick. He had been in contact with several people, and they had brought things over when they ran low on supplies. It hadn’t been often, but it was mostly food, since she didn’t have anything in the house.
“How are you feeling?” Daddy asked.
She smiled at him. “A lot better than the day you found me. Still feel a little under the weather, but it’s definitely better.”
“Good. I want to talk to you about something.”
She looked anxiously at him. She would rather him say what he wanted to talk about than to just say he wanted to talk about something and not give her anything. It made her nervous because she still thought it was partially a dream of him loving her and wanting to be with her again. She was trying to remind herself every time she had one of those thoughts that he did want her.
“It’s nothing bad. I’m just curious about something.”
That didn’t help ease the nerves in her stomach. He was curious about something, and she had a feeling he may not like the answer.
“How did you get sick in the first place?” he asked.
She sucked in a breath. He wasn’t going to like her answer, as he was always reminding her to bring an umbrella everywhere, but he should know her memory wasn’t good.
“So, umm. You know the day I was meeting up with Liv at the coffee shop?”
He nodded. They were both sitting on the couch, relaxing. Well, he was relaxing, and she wasn’t. She was going to get a lecture. She knew that for sure, and if she didn’t get one immediately, it would be later when she least expected it .
Which she wasn’t looking forward to. Who liked being lectured about something? Maylee didn’t.
“So, she had to leave to go to work. I drove there because it was further away from work than I wanted to walk. I thought I got there early enough to grab a spot, but apparently, I didn’t, so I had to park a couple blocks away,” she said. “Then, when I was walking back to my car, it started to rain. I drove to work wet since I still had a whole afternoon, and my boss told me to go home.”
“And?”
“Well, I went home, and I immediately took a warm shower, but at that point I had already been wet for at least twenty minutes. Figured I was going to get sick, but I didn’t know for sure and then sat on the couch and never got up.”
He stared at her for several seconds, without a word. That wasn’t a good sign. It was never a good sign.
“Why didn’t you text me a couple hours later when you started to feel bad?” he asked.
She shrugged. “You were still at work, and I didn’t want to bother you. Before you say anything, I want you to know I didn’t think my phone was going to die. I was going to text you once you got off of work, but that’s when I realized my phone was dead, and I didn’t have the energy to get up. I’m sorry.”
“And where was your umbrella when you went out?”
She blinked several times. She had expected him to ask that earlier, and when he hadn’t, she’d assumed he wasn’t going to ask that question.
“No lying. ”
“I forgot it.”
“You forgot it. Don’t you have an umbrella in your car?”
She shook her head. “I did but then I used it, and it needed to dry. I wasn’t going to leave it in my car all wet. That’s a good way for it to get mold, and I don’t want that.”
“So, you forgot to put it back in.”
She nodded. “You know I don’t have a good memory. I easily forget things and even if I placed it next to the front door, there was no guarantee that I was actually going to remember it.”
He grabbed her hand and gave it a squeeze. “You’re not in trouble. I just wanted to know so I could make sense of everything. You normally don’t get sick, and I was worried about you.”
“I’m so sorry. I really did want to text you, but I just couldn’t, and you saw how bad I was.”
“You’re okay, but next time it starts to rain, you call me right away. Even if you drove, you call me if you have to walk. I will come get you, and I will help you. Understand?”
“Yes, Daddy. I understand.”
“Next time I know you’re going out and it’s going to rain, I will text you. Not because I don’t trust you but because I know you forget things easily, and I want to help you.”
“Thank you. Hopefully there’s not a next time.”
Daddy chuckled. “There will definitely be a next time.”
She sighed and nodded. He was right. No doubt there was going to be a next time, and he would text her then come pick her up.
Maylee turned her body to the side and leaned her head on his shoulder. “I love having you take care of me, even if I don’t remember much of it.”
“I loved taking care of you. I will always love taking care of you. Even if I’m hurt, I’ll still want to take care of you and love doing it.”
“I felt so small while you were taking care of me. Like I didn’t have to worry about a thing. It felt so nice.”
“I’m glad. That’s how it should be. I hope I can continue to give you the peace of not having to worry about things when I take control. Anytime you want that, you let me know. And if it gets to be too much, then you say you’re safeword, and we’ll talk about it.”
“Okay, Daddy. Thank you.”
She snuggled into his side and let out a sigh. It was absolutely perfect. Her life was coming together.
“I have a proposition for you,” Daddy said after a second.
She tilted her head so she could look at him.
“I know you talked about me being your Daddy more than just two days a week. Well, we talked about you having rules every day and not just while we’re playing. I want to make things more official. I don’t want to be your Daddy only two days a week. I want to be your Daddy twenty-four seven. What do you think about that?”
“Wasn’t this what you wanted me to think about this week?” she asked.
Maylee was sure it was, but for some reason she doubted it. Maybe she’d imagined things, but she was sure she hadn’t. She had spoken to Liv about it and thinking she had wanted to tell Daddy immediately she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. But he had told her to think about it, and then she got sick.
Daddy didn’t need to know she hadn’t thought much about it. He probably knew, but before she had even left his house, she had known she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him as his Little girl and as his significant other.
“Well, that was it, but it was mostly toward us being a couple. I’m asking you now if you want to be a couple, but I will also be your Daddy every day. There’s a difference. And if you don’t want me to be your Daddy every day all day then we can talk about it and negotiate what would best suit our relationship. Because not everybody does it every minute of every day. Some are only at a set time.”
She considered this for a couple seconds. She wasn’t sure what she would like more. Part of her thought it would be best for them to be twenty-four seven, but the other part of her wasn’t so sure. Maylee loved the weekend they spent together but it was just a weekend. She had known they would be done after it ended.
“What are you thinking, Lee?” Daddy asked.
“Maybe we could try out doing it every day, all day, and if it doesn’t work, then we can reevaluate?”
“That sounds perfect.”
“I have a feeling I’m going to want it every day, all day, but I’m not sure. A weekend is a lot different than the rest of your life.”
“And if we do find ourselves going every day, all day, but in three years we need to reevaluate, we can. That’s the beauty of this. One season of life we might need to do this all the time and other seasons of life we might just do it on the weekends. But no matter what, we’re going to have each other.”
She nodded and snuggled into his side even more. Why did he have to be so perfect? He was so understanding. He was so calm and patient with everything. Well, maybe not everything but the important thing he was.
“I love you,” she whispered.
“I love you too.”