Page 56 of Daddy's Little Mama Bear

She glared at him. “Yes, I fucking do.”

“Language. If you curse again, I’ll have you over my lap and be spanking you.”

Her bottom clenched together. She didn’t want to get a spanking from him.

“I need a rental. I have a life to live and can’t be at home. It’s me and Eleanor. What if I need something at the store? You said I can’t use an Uber so that leaves me with nothing!”

“Not nothing.”

She raised her eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest. “What is there then? You’ve banned me from my one transportation when I don’t have a car.”

“Me,” he said as he got closer to her. “I’ll be taking you places. If you need to go somewhere, I’ll drive you around.”

She shook her head. “That’s not going to work. No way I’ll do that. Over my dead body. When pigs fly, I’ll do it. Which means never.”

She needed to get her point across that he wouldn’t be driving her places.

“I’m being dead serious,” Mac said. “If you need to go somewhere, I’ll take you there. Grocery store, doctors appointments, anything. I’ll be taking you places.”

She shook her head. “You can’t do that.”

“Yes, I can and I just did.”

Janie sighed. “You’re not going to let go of this until I say yes?”

“That’s right. And if you try and undermine me, I’ll call all the rentals here and tell them they aren’t allowed to give you a car.”

She glared at him. “You can’t do that. I could go to the police and say you’re harassing me.”

“You could, but will you? I’m not trying to be a dictator, but I want you to learn to lean on me. That you don’t have to do everything by yourself. I’m here for you and I think this will be a good way,” he said.

Janie didn’t know about that. Well, she knew she wouldn’t actually go to the police about it. She didn’t want to bother them with something minor like this. She knew Mac and knew he was doing it out of her best interest. Or so she thought. But he wouldn’t abuse it and she didn’t feel unsafe. She just didn’t want him to have to drive her everywhere.

She didn’t like to depend on people that much. They always seemed to let her down. Most of them anyways. Not all of them.

“You don’t need to be spending money when you don’t have to be. I’ll gladly help you out and it’s not going to take anything from me. I’m flexible with work,” Mac said. “I know you have money and aren’t hurting for it, but why not put that towards something else and let me help you out. And I don’t want you to feel like you’re trapped. If you feel like that, then we’ll go get a rental for you.”

Before Janie could respond, the doorbell went off several times. She got up from her seat, but Mac started to head towards the door before her.

“You don’t need to do that,” she said. “I can do it.”

He turned around and looked at her. “Were you going to look through the peephole to see who it was?”

She rolled her eyes. “No, because I know it’s my sister. She rang it several times in a row. Sometimes, I swear she’s a five year old.”

Mac shot her a look and shook his head. He made his way towards the door and looked through the peephole. Janie walked up behind him and watched as he opened the door.

Joann stood with Eleanor in her arms.

“Hello,” Joann said as surprise filled her face. She looked over at Janie and wiggled her eyebrows.

“Macie!” Eleanor yelled and made grabby hands towards him.

Janie’s eyes went wide as she stared at everything unfold. She knew her sister was coming back with Eleanor, but she didn’t think Mac was going to be over for all of it. She had been hoping to have the discussion over the phone, but Mac wasn’t having it.

Joann had taken Eleanor out to spoil her and get her a couple more pairs of clothes to have at her house in case she stayed over. She never liked to do anything normal and wanted Eleanor to come with her so she could pick out what she wanted. Janie could only imagine how that turned out.

Eleanor looked pretty in everything she picked out in her closet. Not everything matched, but that was okay. It brought her joy and Janie wanted that. Who cared if polka dots and stripes didn’t go together. Eleanor wanted to wear it and why not.

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