Page 38 of Daddy's Little Surprise

“I’m Hedda. I have two Daddies. Everything is going to be okay. If you don’t want to talk to us or you want Dane or Marco to be here, then we can wait. It doesn’t have to be now.”

It eased her worries some, but she was still nervous. Were they going to ask her a million questions? She knew for a fact that if they did, she would get overwhelmed way too quickly.

“We just want to talk and get to know you. We hadalready planned on doing it since you were new, but when we saw Marco kissing you, we justknewwe had to do ittoday,” another girl said. “By the way, I’m Echo.”

Right about this point she would really like Dane or Marco with her. Maybe she should ask Marco if she could bring Dane to the coffee shop with her. That way, if anything happened, she could pet the dog and calm down. But it would be hard. Some people were allergic to dogs, and she didn’t want to put them in danger or make them feel like they couldn’t come into her store.

“And we can totally do it another day. We know we’re kind of bombarding you right now, so if you aren’t comfortable, we can do it another day. I’m Monroe.”

Rainey was feeling worse with her thoughts. She had wanted to try and get out of it, but with each of them talking, it made her feel guiltier and guiltier.

“How about we do this another day?” Hedda finally let her go.

“No. It’s fine. We can sit and talk. It’s not busy right now, so I’ve got some time,” Rainey forced out.

That was not what she wanted to say. She wanted to run into her office and hide away.

“I’ll get some drinks and food for you guys.” Grace appeared out of nowhere.

Rainey started to rub her stomach, trying to ease her nerves. She was dreading this, but she was going to have to do it at some point.

“Go relax and get off your feet.” Grace shooed her away.

“I haven’t even been on my feet for an hour yet.”

That was a lie. She had been on her feet this morningwith Daddy, but she’d had the car ride over, which gave her a break.

“It doesn’t hurt to get off them again. You’ll need regular breaks so you don’t swell up too much.” Grace shrugged and smiled.

Rainey let out a sigh and waddled over to the table where the girls were sitting. They were already talking to each other. Was it too late to not do this? They seemed to have known each other for years, and she was stepping into the middle.

“Come on.” Hedda patted the seat next to her. “None of us bite.”

She sat down and took a deep breath. She couldn’t deny that getting off her feet felt good. It was getting harder and harder to have the desire to walk around, but she knew she needed to do it. Her job required it.

“I’m Charlotte. That’s Monroe, Echo, Hedda, Janie, and Sophia. All our Daddies work with your Daddy.”

“Well, not mine since I don’t have one,” Echo said.

“Yet. You don’t have one yet,” Monroe chimed in.

“We also know he’s your Daddy because he’s one of the owners of the club. You don’t need to be embarrassed about that. You don’t have to feel like you need to call him by his first name. You can call him Daddy in front of us if you want to, but there’s no pressure to do that, either. I know it took me a while to call him Daddy in public,” Charlotte mentioned.

It was a lot of information to process.

“Here’s the food and drinks.” Grace set a tray down. “Enjoy, and if you need anything, let me know.”

“Thank you,” they all said at the same time.

Before anyone could do anything, Rainey stood up and gave everybody their glass of water but also gave them two pastries.

“It has to be even,” she mumbled.

Rainey was stressed beyond belief because of her need for things to be even. She sat down and finally took a breath of air. Charlotte was sitting right in front of her, giving her a weird look.

“Okay. Thank you for doing that,” Charlotte said.

“I’m sorry,” Rainey cringed.

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