Page 116 of Daddy, Take Me Away
“I have never doubted your love for me or the strength of our marriage, baby. I am so proud we have the type of relationship where you can admit needs like this to me, even if it took several glasses of wine to get you to blurt them out.”
A small laugh worked its way out of my body. This felt surreal but I was starting to relax, and feel maybe just a bit better.
“I know you’re embarrassed, baby. You don’t need to be. I believe you stumbled upon something all three of us needed,” Daddy said.
“How would it work?” I asked, noticing how both Daddy’s and Tyler’s faces relaxed just the smallest bit. They really did want this for us.
Chapter Nine
Elliot
“How would it work?” I felt so much relief at my babygirl’s words. It wasn’t that I would be disappointed if she said no, it was because I realized how much we all needed this. Denying our feelings wouldn’t fix anything.
“Well, it would work like any new relationship would, we would go on dates and spend time together in more of a romantic way. Most of the hard work is already done because we’re already friends. We don’t have to do the awkward ‘get to know you’ phase,” I explained.
“Yeah, I don’t need to ask about your political views or your favorite color,” Tyler teased, poking Tinsley’s belly.
“Would you live with us?” she asked. She didn’t giggle at Tyler’s actions. Poor baby’s body was tense, a sign she was nervous.
“Not right away, we would make sure this was best for all of us first. There’s no rush on anything,” he said.
“Yeah, we don’t have to worry about any timelines,” I added.
“What if it doesn’t work—if it’s not what’s best for us?”
“Then I will still be Uncle Tyler. I won’t pretend we have all the answers or that everything would be exactly the same if it didn’t work out, but I can promise you that your Daddy and I will do everything we can to keep our small family together, platonically and romantically.”
I nodded, agreeing with Tyler’s wise words. Despite his anxiety, he was doing a wonderful job working with me to explain this to Tinsley.
“What do you two get out of it? Would you guys be romantic too? L-like boyfriends?”
“We’ve talked about that too. We’re not sure. Neither of us have been with a man and we don’t feel attraction toward other men, but we do love each other already and something might blossom from that,” I explained. “But mostly we get to each have a part of you and watch you bloom under both our care. When we were talking about our future, that’s the thing we decided we wanted most.”
A look of hurt crossed her face and I took one of her hands in mine before kissing the back of her soft skin. “I want you to understand something, little one, before your mind plays tricks on you. Tyler and I talked about this without you for several reasons, but none of them were because we were hiding it from you or because we didn’t want you involved.”
She nodded, but it was easy to read her. She wasn’t fully convinced.
“We needed to see how we each felt about it. There was no point in bringing you into the conversation if your Daddy or I weren’t interested,” Tyler explained.
She nodded once more.
“We also wanted to talk about this with each other first to gauge how we each felt about sharing you. I love you to the moon and back, little one, and I wasn’t sure I could share until I talked to Tyler man-to-man to see what his version of being in a relationship with us looked like.”
“And I wanted to make sure your Daddy and I would equally share. Sometimes, maybe I would like to take you on a special date alone and I needed to make sure your Daddy was okay with that.”
Tinsley looked at me and I nodded. “I was okay with that. His wish to have special time with you helped me understand how much he already cared about you. He wants to take care of your heart and that’s very important to Daddy.”
“What do you two get out of it? I feel like we’re switching our whole dynamic around because of me.”
Dammit, she was so prone to guilt. I wonder if she’d even heard me the first time I explained it.
“No, baby. I think we’ve needed this for a long time, and you were the only one who admitted it. We’ve played at being a throuple for a while. We just didn’t realize it. And we’d get so much out of it. We get you happy, we get to add a wonderful person into our relationship, and we get another person to share our bodies and hearts with,” I said.
“Technically, I get to share my heart and bodies with two people. I also get the stability of a relationship that I know I’m already invested in. You didn’t cause us to change our dynamics around, you brought our dynamic together,” Tyler said, kissing her hand. Damn him and his way with words.
“It also makes Daddy’s heart feel better about working long hours. I know I work a lot and now you’d have another Daddy here to help when I was absent. I know you chill with Uncle Tyler a lot when I work, but now it wouldn’t be such a shift in your headspace. You’d still be with Daddy, just a different one.”
“That would be nice. Is kinda hard to go from being Little at home to being Little at Uncle Tyler’s house.”
