Page 39 of Daddy's Little Duckling

Rae fought back the grin that was trying to sneak across her face. This wasn’t the way that she wanted them to meet, but it would have to do.

They headed over to where Miles was standing talking to another gentleman that Rae was introduced to but couldn’t remember his name.

“Hey man, there’s a slight problem that could use your expertise. Rae just got a call from her best friend, Olivia, that she’s stranded in a parking lot with a blown tire. Is there any way you can take Rae and go meet her and get the tire changed?”

“Of course. I would be happy to help.”

Daddy leaned down and pressed a kiss on her cheek.

“Come on, squirt, let's go help your friend.”

Rae grabbed Miles’ hand and skipped alongside him towards his truck. His truck was just as big as Daddy’s was and he had to help her into it. After buckling, Rae dug out her phone to shoot Olivia a quick text letting her know what was going on.

Raelyn: Hey, so Daddy couldn’t come, but Miles and I are headed your way to help.

Olivia: Okay, I’m sitting in my car waiting for you. See you soon!

Pulling up her location on her phone, Rae gave Miles directions toward where Olivia was at. They were less than 10 minutes away from her, so it wouldn’t take long.

As they were pulling up, Rae directed Miles to where Olivia’s car was parked. She heard a growl come from the seat beside her, but decided to ignore it.

Rae knew that Olivia didn’t have the best car and it probably deserved to go to the junkyard, but Rae’s car isn’t much better so she didn’t feel right commenting on it.

She unbuckled her seatbelt and went to open the door before the clearing of a throat stopped her. She waited untilMiles opened her door before giving him a look of exasperation. Jumping down, they walked over to Olivia’s car just as she was getting out.

“You…it’s you.” Olivia whispered

“Well, hi again, Little girl. I hoped that one day I would get to run into you again. I have been beating myself up for weeks for not getting your name and number.”

Olivia continued to stare at Miles. She had been struck speechless and Rae tried not to giggle at her expense. Rae pulled Olivia to the side while Miles got to work on changing her tire.

“How do you know my mystery man?” Olivia whisper-shouted at Rae.

“Ummm, well you see, he is Emmett’s best friend.”

“What! You didn’t say anything!”

“After our first conversation at the coffee shop, I had a suspicion that he was the guy you ran into, but I couldn’t prove it. It wasn’t until I dragged hints out of him that I put it all together.”

“You still never said anything.”

“That’s ‘cause I was planning on putting y’all together at the party. I had this whole scheme planned out, but I guess it isn’t needed now. Seems like the universe decided it wanted to play matchmaker instead.”

Rae searched for any look of hurt on Olivia’s face. She didn’t want to hurt her friend and was worried that she might have by keeping this all a secret. She didn’t see any and was grateful for that.

“Alright ladies, tire is all changed and we are ready to head back to the party.”

Olivia looked like she was ready to bolt. Rae refused to let that happen.

“Okay, Uncle M! I’ll just ride back with Olivia.”

“I’ll allow it only because I will be following right behind you. Don’t think that I didn’t hear your conversation though. We will be having a talk with your Daddy about all of this. I’m sure he would love to know exactly what his Little girl has been up to the past few weeks.”

Groaning, Rae turned and headed to get into the car. Just as she was closing the door she heard a low mummer from Miles.

“Go ahead and get in the car, Little Bunny. I’ll be right behind you and we will have plenty of time to talk later.”

Olivia slid into the driver seat and Rae watched the blush creep across her face. She didn’t plan for this to be the great matchmaking scheme, but she wasn’t upset about it either.

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