Bringing her into the kitchen he settled her at the bar before reheating the breakfast and setting it infront of her. Emmett made a mental note to see about getting a custom made highchair for Rae, it would keep her safe while she ate.
Watching her eat, Emmett shot off a quick remindertext to Miles about how he would be unavailable for the day unless it was an emergency. He barely held back the grin that tried to cross his face when he watched Rae pick up her sippy and take a big swallow of the plain milk he had given her.
Her nose scrunch was adorable every time he saw it. This was something else that they had been working on since the original fiasco over the plain milk.
He didn’t think that she would ever be totally okay with drinking it, but they had worked out an agreement that she could have one glass of chocolate or strawberry milk after she had her first glass of plain. It had been going well so far, but not until after she had gotten lines a couple times about throwing a fit when she didn’t get her way.
Once she was done, he cleaned up the dishes and started the dishwasher before grabbing Rae and leading her down the hallway to the nursery.
Rae wasted no time speed walking over to the toy box before not so gracefully dropping onto her bottom to dig out whatever toy she wanted to play with today. Chuckling he made his way over to the rocking chair and settled in to watch her.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
EMMETT
Emmett was in the kitchen making Rae a snack when he heard a phone ring in his room. Knowing that it wasn’t his since the only person who would have called him was Miles, he knew that it had to be Rae’s.
Grabbing the plate of sliced apples and peanut butter he headed to his room to grab her phone off the bedside table. Noticing that the contact listed her scheduler Amanda from work he figured it might be important for her to take it, though Emmett hated the idea of pulling her out of Littlespace.
Walking back into her nursery he set the snack plate beside her and handed her the phone. He immediately watched the dread cross her face when she noticed who was calling her. Emmett listened as she answered the call waiting to see what was going on.
“Hey Amanda, what’s up?”
He couldn’t hear what she replied, but from Rae’s reaction he knew that he wasn’t going to like where this was going.
“Amanda, I worked a sixteen hour shift yesterday and I’malready scheduled for a twelve hour shift tomorrow. I really don’t think it’s fair to ask me to come in on my one day off.”
Emmett could feel his temper rising. It wasn’t very often that something upset him enough that he could feel himself getting fired up, but this was his baby and he was starting to grow real tired of how they treated her.
It was clear that the job had no boundaries and would continue to steamroll over Rae because she was too nice to stand up for herself.
“No, I understand. You’re short staffed and need the help. I can be there…”
Emmett didn’t let her finish the statement before he pulled the phone from her grasp.
“Daddy, no. What are you doing?”
Giving her a look that had Rae’s words dying on her lips, he cleared his throat before speaking to the voice on the other side.
“Hello? Rae? Did I lose you? This isn’t funny, you need to be here within the next forty-five minutes for this shift.”
“This is Emmett, Rae’s boyfriend. Can you please explain what was so important that you called her on the one day off she has this week?”
“Oh, um. Hi Emmett. I’m Amanda, the scheduler at Ivory Mountain Nursing Home.”
“I’m aware of who you are. You can answer my question now.”
He could tell that he caught Amanda off guard. Emmett wouldn’t normally be so curt with someone.
That wasn’t who he was as a person and he knew that it was just as easy to make friends as it was enemies, but at this moment he didn’t really care what Amanda thought of him.
All he could think about was the Little girl who was sitting at his feet, biting her lip, and picking the skin around her nails. He needed to end this conversation quickly, so that he couldwork on calming her down. He could only imagine what was going on in her brain at this moment.
“We had a call out today and Rae has to come in and pick up the shift. We are short staffed.”
“Did you contact anyone else before calling Raelyn?”
“Well, no. She always comes in, so there hasn’t been a reason for me to ever call anyone else.”
