“You’re here!”
“I am!”
“For how many longs?”
“Until Sunday.”
I squealed and hugged him again.
Daddy laughed from behind me. “Well, that’s a happy girl!”
I hadn’t even seen him in all my excitement.
“Uncle Tyler’s here!” I yelled.
“I know! We have something to talk to you about, baby.”
I froze on the bed. Oh no.
“It’s not bad news, little one. Daddy’s sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you,” he said, setting his steaming mug of coffee on the nightstand, and lifting me into his lap.
“Not bad news, just different news,” Uncle Tyler assured me. He took one of my hands in his.
“Do you remember several months ago after we’d had a bit too much wine on the patio?” My heart dropped to my belly and I could feel the heat rushing to my face. I knew exactly what night he was talking about. Looking at Tyler, I could tell right away that Daddy had talked to him about my drunken admission of wanting to be in a ménage with Tyler. It had started with us talking about some things we wanted to try during our sexy times, but when I blurted out my desire to be taken by two men, Daddy had dug deeper. He’d gotten the full truth out of me eventually. Still, I couldn’t believe he’d shared that with Tyler. With a knot in my tummy, I snuck a glance at each of them. They didn’t look upset. No, they looked… excited.
I frowned and nodded.
“What did we talk about, baby?”
“That I w-wanted to have sex with two men.” My Little had retreated. She was hiding inside of me until she knew it was safe again. What was happening right now?
“Yeah, and then we talked about it a bit more, right?”
I nodded again before finding a random string on Daddy’s shirt to play with. Nerves made me anxiously twist it around my finger.
“What did we learn?” Daddy prompted.
Tears pricked my eyes. I didn’t want to admit any of the things we’d talked about, but Daddy would never hurt me in any way, including my feelings, so I knew there had to be a reason behind all of this.
“That I didn’t want to have sex with two men at the same time, I wanted to be intimate with you and Tyler at the same time.”
“You’re such a brave baby,” Daddy praised, even though I wasn’t in Little space at the moment. He kissed the top of my head and held me tighter. “Then what did we realize?” he prompted.
“That I wanted Tyler to be in our relationship more than just casually. I wanted him to be a whole part, like I’m a whole part, and you’re a whole part.” My voice broke at the end of the sentence and Tyler scooped me off of Daddy’s lap.
“Hey, no bad feelings, Teenie. I’m not upset at all. I’m actually relieved,” Tyler admitted, rubbing the back of his neck. His cheeks were pink too. I felt a bit better knowing he was embarrassed or, at least, nervous too.
“You’re… relieved? Why?” I was sure it wasn’t every day your best friend’s wife admitted she wanted you to join their marriage, especially their ‘never been open before’ marriage.
“Because I very much want to be a part of this relationship too.”
“You do?”
“I wouldn’t want to be in this type of relationship with others, but you two are a different story. I have loved you both for a long time. A lot longer than I think you’ve had feelings for me.”
I was a bit baffled at his admission. I didn’t have this in my 2024 Vacation Bingo Card at all. “I s-still love Daddy, though.” Fear that he would feel abandoned filled me. I just needed to make sure both of them understood.
“Oh, Teenie. I know you do. This has nothing to do with you not loving Elliot and has everything to do with you being willing to admit you needed something just a tiny bit different,” Tyler said.