Emmett settled in on the couch and pulled her to sit on the spot beside him. She was so grateful that Lola stayed in her lap.
Running her fingers through the cat’s fur helpedease her anxiety and the sweet furball didn’t seem to want to be anywhere else.
“I’ll start, Little girl. If at any time you want to stop this conversation, you can say so.”
Rae nodded her head and waited for Emmett to continue.
“On our date I mentioned that I was a Daddy to you. Do you know what that means?”
Raelyn considered lying to him. She doesn’t tell anyone about that part of herself, but she knew that she would never find a Daddy to call her own if she never put herself out there and took the risk.
“Yes, I know what a Daddy is. I’ve read books about it. I started reading them in high school.”
Emmett grinned at her and she couldn’t help but feel slightly woeful. She knew that she should tell him about all the trauma that surrounds that time of her life.
It would be important information for him to know. She just couldn’t bring herself to weigh down the night by bringing up the trauma that she had gone through and spoil the calm atmosphere that they had formed.
Deciding that she wanted to wait, Rae pushed aside the thoughts that were brought up and put a smile on her face to hide what was going on in her head.
“I know this is new and we barely know each other, but Rae I know that you are meant to be my Little girl.”
“There’s no way that you could know that. You don’t know me well enough.”
“My gut tells me that you’re mine and I don’t make it a habit to ignore what my gut says.”
Rae couldn’t argue with his statement. She too knew that deep down inside that Emmett was meant to be her Daddy.
He was meant to be hers and for once she was ready to take her life into her own hands and make the choice that shewanted without worrying about what could happen if it went wrong.
“I knew there was something different about you when we first met.” Rae replied to him.
“I know that we are just getting to know each other, but communication is very important in any relationship, especially one that has a power exchange. I would love to sit and talk about things that you like and dislike, but we can table that until tomorrow if you don’t feel like you are up to it right now.”
Rae thought about his statement for a few minutes. While she was tired and could fall asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, she knew that if they put off the entire conversation she would just continue to stress about it all. It was better if they went ahead and talked over some of it tonight.
“I don’t want to wait. I would rather have it tonight, if that’s okay with you.”
“That’s more than okay. I took the liberty of printing out my list of soft and hard limits so that you would be able to see everything that I am okay with as a Daddy.”
Rae’s eyes opened wide. She had been in a few kinky relationships before, but none of them had ever taken the time to write out their limits.
They had just gone with the flow of things and hoped for the best. Maybe that was why none of them worked out longer than a few weeks with the exception of one of them.
“I won’t sit here and read over everything with you, but you can take this copy and when you are ready you can read it. I also printed out a blank one for you that I would love for you to fill out so that I have a better idea of how to take care of you. The last thing I want is to cause you harm in any way.”
She loved that he was thinking of her desires and feelings. Accepting the papers he handed her, she quickly glanced over the blank one and noticed that it was the standard limits list.
She had filled out a similar one before online when she had joined a kink friendly dating site. Her account there didn’t last long before she started getting overwhelmed and a little freaked out, but she kept her list that she had completed so that would make this process a whole lot easier.
“One last thing I want to talk with you about tonight, before this goes any further, is a safe word. While we will probably never do extremely intense scenes, I want you to know that you have a way to stop everything that is happening with no repercussions. This can be anything from a conversation to a punishment. Your physical and mental health is my top priority.”
This was something else that she was familiar with because it was always present in the books that she read.
Rae knew that it was important to talk about and have a safe word in place just in case there was ever a need to use it.
“I have read about safe words in my books, so I know how they work. Most of the books I read use the stoplight system – green for everything is okay, yellow for things need to slow down and we need to talk, and red for everything needs to stop immediately.”
“That’s right, Little one. I personally prefer the stoplight system because it is easy and recognized no matter where you go, but if you have a safe word you would rather use I am okay with that as well.”
