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Before waiting for Emmett’s response, Raelyn quickly turned and continued back down the hall before she could say or do anything embarrassing.

Rae dashed down the hallway to the nurses' station to catch her breath. She didn’t know what it was about that man, but everything about him called to her. Made her want to curl up in his lap and let Daddy deal with all of her problems.

Rae needed to stop calling Emmett ‘Daddy’ in her mind.He most likely doesn’t even know what that is and if he did, she knows that he would never want to be her Daddy.

She already had settled in her mind that she would never find the Daddy for her. It was wishful thinking and she just needed to get over it.

Littles and Daddies or Mommies only exist in the books she devours in the little spare time she has. Even if they did exist, no Daddy would want her.

She was nothing special. Her blonde straight hair, dark green eyes, and curvy body wasn’t something men did a double take at.

Her ex spent quite a bit of their relationship dropping hints to her that she could do to lose a few pounds. That she was lucky someone like him even found her attractive.

All of the comments he made reminded her of what her parents used to say and do to her. There had been many times that her mom would put her on a new fad diet in hopes that Rae would drop a couple pounds.

Her mom never liked that Rae was a size sixteen compared to her size two. It really weighed on her self-esteem growing up.

Finally, when she caught her breath and stopped the daydream of Emmett she slipped out of the nurses’ station. Looking down the hall Rae was disappointed that Emmett wasn’t still in the hallway.

Shaking her head to clear it, Rae continued down the hallway and slipped into her next resident's room. She still had a full schedule ahead of her and if she wanted to make her lunch on time, she needed to get to work and stop messing around.

CHAPTER FOUR

EMMETT

Shaking his head and muttering to himself as he walked down the hallway, Emmett made his way into Nan’s room. He didn’t like the look of those dark circles under Rae’s eyes.

They seemed to be worse than they usually were. The dark purple marks didn’t belong under his Little one’s eyes and it hurt his heart to see them there. Let’s not forget that he spotted the energy drink in her hands.

If she was his, he wouldn’t allow her to drink those unhealthy things. They were full of sugar and bad for her heart. There were much better and healthier ways to have an energy boost that wouldn’t stop her heart beating in her chest.

She wouldn’t need energy drinks anyway cause he would be making sure that she got plenty of sleep at night and would lay her down for a nap on her days off to help balance the lack of sleep she got on the days she worked. She also wouldn’t be working back-to-back shifts like this if he was her Daddy.

Emmett had planned on moving slowly with Raelyn and taking the time to get to know her, but seeing her in this statejust proves that she needs a Daddy and he wasn’t going to let anyone else step up to the job. Rae was his and it was time that she knew that.

With those thoughts in mind, Emmett worked out a plan to ask her out for dinner and set out to come up with the best date possible. He wanted it to be one that would appeal to both her Big and Little sides. After seeing her today he was even more certain that she had both and that made his Daddy heart soar.

Pulling out his laptop and settling in for the afternoon, Emmett waited for his Little girl to make her way back around to his Nan’s room. He started looking up restaurants that he thought Raelyn might like.

Deciding on one not too far from the nursing home, he shifted gears and picked out an arcade that was nearby. He didn't know of any Little girls or Little boys that could resist the excitement of an arcade and hoped that Rae would enjoy it too.

After a few hours, he finally heard a timid knock at the door and turned to greet the person walking in. Unable to stop the smile from forming from his face, he took in the darling girl standing in front of him.

“I was just stopping by to make sure Mrs. Jean was okay and that no one needed anything.” she softly spoke.

“Nannie Jean is doing just fine, but I require some assistance if you wouldn’t mind.”

Walking further into the room,

“Oh absolutely, what is it I could help you with?”.

Emmett quickly answered her “I found this restaurant right down the road from here that seems to have some pretty great reviews, but I would hate to go visit all on my own. Would you be so kind as to accompany me to dinner?”

His question must have caught her off guard as she blankly stared at him before giving him an answer. Just not the one that he longed for.

“Oh you wouldn’t want to take me to dinner, I’m sure that there is someone much more in your league that you could take.”

Growling at her response, “I can assure you that the only one I want to go to dinner with is standing right in front of me.”

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