“Call him and tell him. Neither one of you is fucking moving until I tell you.”
Rainey was pretty sure even if he told her to move, she wouldn’t. She hadn’t seen what he looked like, but she knew he was scary.
Daddy pulled out his phone and called Leo. “You can leave. We’ve got everything handled here. Yep, I’ll drive Rainey’s car home. Mm-hm. Bye.”
They sat in silence; the suspense was killing her. What did he look like? Was he as scary as he sounded?
Before she could stop her feet from moving, she found herself letting go of Daddy’s shirt and walking to the side of him. The first thing she noticed was how big Deccan was.
Rainey quickly looked around, trying to see where his bike was parked, but she didn’t see anything. How had he got there? Did he walk the whole way? How long had he been there?
She looked back at him, only to see his eyes staring at her stomach. Did Echo not tell him she was pregnant?
“Rainey!” Daddy scolded her. “You stay behind me at all times right now.”
He gripped her arm tight as Deccan looked at him.
“Let go of her.”
Her eyes went wide, but Daddy’s hand didn’t let go of her.
“You stay behind me. If he draws his gun, I get hit first. You never walk to the side or in front ofDaddy. Do you understand?”
She nodded but continued to look at Deccan. His hand was inching toward his gun, and her heart rate was beating faster as she saw everything unfolding in front of her. His hand raised, gun pointing at Daddy.
“Let her go!” Deccan raised his voice.
“Shit. Deccan. It’s okay!” she yelled, breaking free from Daddy’s hold.
With her arms raised, she stepped right in front of Daddy, completely ignoring his words. She didn’t want Deccan to shoot him.
“Daddy, stay behind me.”
“Little girl,” he growled.
Deccan lowered his gun.
“Deccan, give us a second?” Daddy asked.
He nodded and watched them.
“Turn around right now, Rainey.”
“Go on, Little one. Do as your Daddy says.”
Rainey turned around, and Daddy landed several swats on her bottom.
“Owie,” she whined as she rubbed her bottom. “Why?”
“I told you to stay behind me, yet when he points a gun at me, you go to shield me. Rainey, I told you several weeks ago to do as I say if we were both in danger.”
She had decided to completely go against everything Daddy had said. She just didn’t want him to get hurt, especially when Deccan might not have known who he was. What if he hurt him because Deccan thought Daddy was some random person?
“I know, but I wanted him to know you were with me,” she whispered.
“Deccan knows. You have called me Daddy several times, and I’m pretty sure he was here for a lot of our conversation before he spoke.”
Rainey sighed. There was no way of getting out of this. She had broken her safety rule once again. Two times in one night. How many more rules was she going to break?