Page 55 of Giddy Up, Daddy

Sexy.

“What about my car?” she asked. “Shouldn’t I drive it home?”

“I’ll send someone to get it tomorrow. I don’t want you driving at night.”

Oh.

“You’ve gone quiet. I thought you’d have more questions,” he said. “Or arguments.”

“I don’t really know what to say. I don’t know what’s going on.”

And she was afraid that she’d gotten this all wrong.

Maybe he wanted her back at the ranch because Grandpa Jack needed her.

“Is Grandpa Jack okay?” she asked worriedly. “Should you have left him alone? Does he need me?”

“Grandpa is fine,” he said. “He can stay by himself for a while. That’s not why I came after you.”

“It’s not? Then why?”

“I deserve that,” he said, shaking his head.

“Deserve what?”

“I didn’t come for you for Grandpa Jack. I came for you.”

Stafford could still see that asshole’s hand on hers.

Anger, unlike anything he’d felt before, had filled him and if she hadn’t been sitting right there, he’d likely have punched the other guy.

Fuck. He needed to calm down.

He couldn’t afford to get arrested right now.

But Blakely needed to learn who she belonged to. And belonging to him meant that no other man got to touch her.

Or look at her.

Talk to her.

All right. Perhaps he needed to rein his possessiveness in a bit. He’d make exceptions for some men.

Like Grandpa Jack.

Yeah, Grandpa Jack could talk to her.

“For me?” she whispered.

“Yes. For you. I came to get you because you have no business going to some damn speed-dating night. What were you thinking? You could have met some creep.”

“I could meet a creep anywhere,” she said. “There might have been a creep in the bar or the grocery store. It’s not easy out there, meeting people. Especially when you’re looking for a Daddy. A kind, caring Daddy is hard to find. Although, there’s an unusual number of Daddies here. Must be something in the water. It would be nice to find someone to love me, to put me first, who will take care of me and who I can look after too. Is that wrong?”

Fuck, no.

It wasn’t wrong.

“Do they have to be a Daddy Dom?” he asked.

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