“Okay, Miles. Can we just stay on the phone? I don’t want to be alone.”
“Of course, babygirl. I’ll let Emmett know what’s going on and then I’ll be headed your way. You just sit tight.”
Miles walked back into the living room. Explaining to them what was going on, Miles grabbed his keys and headed out the door with the promise that he would be careful and would bring her back.
The drive to her felt like it took forever, but was probably less than fifteen minutes. Seeing her car on the side of the road, he hung up the phone, and jumped out of the truck.
Liv got out of her car and Miles couldn’t help but pull her into his arms. He stopped short when he saw the flinch that she tried to hide.
“Babygirl?”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that.”
“You know I would never hurt you, right?”
“Uh, I didn’t. I do now, I guess. I promise I didn’t mean anything by it. Just a habit is all.”
Miles didn’t like the sound of that at all. Why would she have a habit of flinching? Who harmed hisLittle girl?
He knew that she wouldn’t answer any of the questions he would ask, so he bit them back and cleared them from his mind.
“I just want to take a quick look at your car before we go, okay?”
She nodded her head at him and opened the door again to pop the hood of the car. He rounded the hood of the car and immediately saw what the problem was.
It looks like the squealing noise that he heard the other day after fixing her tire was the timing belt. It seems like it finally snapped.
He was grateful that she didn’t lose control of the car. It could have been much worse. He let out a deep breath before slamming the hood of the car and making his way back to her.
“Okay, Little Bunny. Your car isn’t going anywhere tonight. I’ll call a guy I know and have him tow it to his shop to do the repair it needs.”
“But…I, uh…that’s not necessary. I’ll figure it out.”
“Oh, I apologize, Little girl. I didn’t mean that as a question. That was a statement. I will be taking care of all that because that’s what a Daddy does.”
Her eyes widened and he realized what he said. There was no taking it back now. It was better that she knew now because that wasn’t something that he would ever be able to turn off.
He was a Daddy and that wasn’t something he was going to hide from her.
“This isn’t the time nor place to have this conversation, but we will. I am a Daddy and from the reaction you had to that word, you know exactly what that is.”
Guiding her to the truck after she grabbed her purse from the backseat, Miles helped her crawl into the passenger seat before helping her buckle. They made their way back towards Emmett’s house in comfortable silence.
Even with the hiccup earlier,their night was great. Once getting back to the house, Miles reheated up some pizza for Olivia that she ate while they played a few rounds of Candy Land.
Miles never thought that his Little girl would be competitive, but it seems like she is and doesn’t like to lose. It was so cute to watch her get worked up over the game.
He has been watching her rub her eyes for the past thirty minutes letting him know that she was reaching the point in the night where he needed to call it and take her home.
Miles had no doubt that his darling girl would fight him on this, but she had no other way home.
“Okay, my Little one, it’s time to tell your friend goodnight and gather your things to go.”
“Noooo!! It’s not time for me to go. Plus I don’t have a way home anyways. I guess I can just sleep here tonight.”
Miles' words were cut off by Raelyn clapping her hands.
“Yes!! It would be a girls night! We can stay in the nursery and build a fort to sleep in.”
