“What do you mean he finally asked me out? I had never seen him before Wednesday morning when I walked right into him.”
Olivia giggled until she realized that Rae was being serious.
“That man has been coming to visit his Nan only on the days that you are working for a few months now. I’m really surprised that it took him this long before he finally made a move..” she went on to explain.
Raelyn didn’t know how to process that information. She blushed at the thought that a man as handsome as he had noticed her and wanted to be around her when she was working, but she couldn’t believe that all those times she had been daydreaming and never noticed that he was there.
“If you knew that Emmett was coming only on my work days, why didn’t you tell me?” Rae asked her after a short pause.
“Well, I didn’t want to bring up that he was smitten with you for fear that you would run the other way. We both know that you don’t do well with attention from men, but with a man as handsome as Emmett I knew that you would make every attempt to avoid him.”
Rae knew that Olivia wasn’t wrong. After the jerk that she dated before, Raelyn had sworn off men for a while. She never wanted to get hurt like that again, but even more so, she neverwanted to expose her Little again to someone who could harm her.
She knew that opening up to Emmett put her at that risk, but every part of her knew that he was a good man and would never purposely do her harm.
“I understand why you kept that information to yourself. You’re right to think that I would have run in the other direction. I still can’t believe that Emmett wants me. I mean look at me. I’m not anything special.”
Olivia shook her head. She was constantly reminding Rae that she was a beautiful and kind girl. One day she would find her Daddy who would see all the perfect qualities that Raelyn had and he would snatch her up and never let her go.
Promising Olivia that she would call her that night and spill all the details of her date with Emmett, they switched the conversation to one a little less heavy to wrap up the last few minutes of their lunch break.
They had plenty of time on the shift to continue to chat, but they both still had lots of work to get done.It always seemed like the work never stopped, but Rae didn’t mind.
The more that she did during the day the faster the shift seemed to move. Plus, if she sat down for too long Rae knew that she would struggle to find the energy to continue to work.
All of the hours she had been working lately were slowly catching up with her. She knew that when she got home, Rae was going to crash hard.
CHAPTER SIX
RAELYN
Finally home for the night, Raelyn sent Emmett a text message after crawling into bed with her paci and Bruce. They had been texting ever since he gave her his number. She loved that he checked in with her and asked her about her day. She couldn’t help but feel giddy every time his name flashed across her phone. It was probably wishful thinking, but she couldn’t resist changing his name to Daddy Emmett.
Raelyn: I’m finally home and in bed. I can’t wait for tomorrow to come!
She turned her phone over and tried to be patient waiting for him to respond.
“Bruce I don’t know what it is about Emmett, but I like him.”
Bruce looked at her in agreement.
“I know you want to meet him to make sure he is safe, but what if he doesn’t want that side of me? I can’t let my Little get hurt like that again.”
Bruce scoffed in disagreement, but the pinging of her phone cut off any further argument that he had.
Emmett: Me too Little girl. I am so excited for what I have planned for you.
Emmett: What’s your plan for tomorrow morning before we meet?
Raelyn: I’m going grocery shopping first thing in the morning.
She hated going grocery shopping. Rae tried to go when the store first opened. There were always fewer people and environmental stimulations that could overwhelm her.
It was easier and she could quickly grab her safe foods and then get home for Little time. The more time she got to spend in Littlespace on her days off the better she felt during the week when there was less time for her to relax.
Rae had a horrible experience once when she was shopping later in the afternoon. She knew better than to shop after work because she usually was already at her limit for outside stimulation, but she had hoped that it would be a quick trip as she only needed to grab a handful of items.
What should have been fast ended up taking forty-five minutes because Rae had spent it in the bathroom fighting through a panic attack.
