“I will be seeing all of you more often,” Deccan informed them as he looked around, making eye contact with everyone. “Especially you two.”

Rainey took a deep breath as he pointed at her and Echo. Why her?

“Over my dead body,” Daddy said.

“That can be arranged.”

Tears pooled in her eyes, and she shook her head. “N-no,” she choked out.

“Shit, girly. I’m not going to kill your Daddy. Not unless he abuses you, and before you can say it, spankings, corner time, ginger in the bottom, and lines do not count.”

Rainey wiped away the tears on her cheeks.

“I’ll be seeing her around. Siblings date. Check-ins to make sure your Daddy is taking care of you.”

“He would never,” she whispered.

“I know, but still.”

Deccan turned toward Echo. “Text me when you get home.”

“Make me.”

“That can be arranged.”

Echo shook her head and sighed.

Deccan turned and walked out of the building. Sagging into Daddy’s embrace, she took several deep breaths. The few times Rainey was around Deccan, he always managed to make her exhausted.

“Rainey will be taking a nap in my office. She’ll hang out another time,” Daddy told Echo and Tucker.

EPILOGUE

RAINEY

“No!” Rainey yelled.

“Get your bottom back in bed,” Daddy commanded.

“No!” she yelled again, this time stomping her foot. “I am sick and tired of lying in bed! I don’t want to lie in bed anymore. I want to go to the coffee shop. I want to hang out with the other Littles at the club.”

Tears of frustration filled her eyes. She had been on bed rest for a week now, and Rainey absolutely hated it. Whoever invented it sucked. They deserved to be put in corner time and have ginger stuck up their bottom.

“Rainey.”

“Daddy,” she mocked him.

“You have until the count of three to get back into bed.”

“And what if I don’t?” She raised an eyebrow.

“Spankings.”

Rainey kept her face neutral as she stared at him butclenched her bottom. Her bottom was still sore from the other spanking she got the day before.

She had been on a naughty streak. It all started when the doctor told her she needed to be put on bed rest until she went into labor. When was that? Any day now, and it was driving her crazy.

Rainey wanted to have her baby in her armsbut also to be off bed rest.