Page 37 of Daddy's Little Duckling

During the playdate, they had talked about the company party that Emmett’s tech company was doing. It was supposed to be family friendly and Emmett knew that there would be a lot of kids around.

So he roped Rae and Olivia into helping him brainstorm ideas of family friendly activities that they could do.

Rae knew that this was the perfect opportunity to bringOlivia and Miles together, so she planned on using it to her advantage. Rae invited Olivia to come as the beginning of her master plan to get Miles and Olivia to meet again.

She couldn’t wait to see it all happen. It was going to be amazing! They had chatted again about the mystery man that she ran into, but Rae found out that Olivia had still yet to find out more information about him.

Olivia had gone back to that same Target multiple times since then in hopes that she would run into him again, but hadn’t had any luck. It really surprised Rae that she was doing so much to find out who this man was.

She had never seen Olivia put effort into finding a guy much less showing interest in wanting to possibly get with a man. It was interesting to see it happen and Rae couldn’t wait to see it continue to develop.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

RAELYN

Acouple weeks have passed and it’s finally the Saturday of the company party. Rae had been not so patiently waiting for this day. She had been slowly dropping hints to Miles about this Little that Rae wanted to introduce him to.

Not enough to give away that she was the mystery woman he has been thinking about and looking for since the last encounter, but just enough to keep him interested in meeting this woman. Rae couldn’t wait to see his reaction to Olivia being there.

Over the past few weeks, Rae kept asking Emmett about Miles and how he was as a Daddy. She wanted to make sure that he would be a good Daddy for Olivia.

No one would hurt her best friend and if she could keep that from occurring then that’s exactly what she planned to do. Emmett kept giving her strange looks everytime that she asks another question or mentions something else about Miles being lonely.

He seems like he is slowly catching on to her plan to play cupid, but he didn’t mention it to her and she wasn’t going tobring it up at all. She didn’t want the punishment that she knew would follow, so the longer that she was able to postpone that the better she would be.

When planning the company party, there had been many different options of places to host the party, but eventually they settled on the local park.

There were plenty of areas to break off and mingle in small groups and all the kids that they knew would be there would have somewhere to go and play.

Rae and Olivia were of course excited to have the chance to play on the playground, as well. It wasn’t often that they got to play together out in public without getting looks and hate for it.

Apparently grown adults playing on a playground is frowned upon and Rae believed that it was really because those people were just jealous.

There was no reason to not enjoy playing on the playground, even as an adult. Everyone should be able to do that no matter their age.

Having the company party at the park meant that Rae had a couple different places that she could get Miles and Olivia together.

Originally, she thought about just introducing them together, but that didn’t seem like it was grand enough!

Rae wanted it to be special and so she continued to plot. Finally settling on a plan, Rae just had to put it into action.

“Raelyn, it's almost time to go! Are you ready?”

Spinning around one more time in the mirror, she smoothed down the dress that she was wearing. Daddy had surprised her with it earlier this week.

It was a pretty peach colored sundress with ruffles along the bottom. It fit perfectly and was a soft cotton material. It seemed like forever ago that they had the conversation about her processing disorder, but it still surprised her everytimeDaddy took the extra time to find something that wouldn’t harm her.

He always went the extra mile for her and she appreciated it so much. Rae always reminded him every chance that she could that she loved how he took care of her and didn’t belittle the struggles she faced.

“I’m coming, Daddy! Just one second!”

Rae dashed into their bedroom and slipped into the closet to find her white converse. Jamming her feet into them as quickly as she could, she took off out of the room before remembering the last time that she ran in the house.

Not wanting a repeat of the last spanking she had gotten, Rae slowed her steps and met Daddy at the door.

“Okay Daddy, I’m ready now! I can’t wait to meet everyone and spend some more time with Olivia.”

Emmett grinned down at her and gave her a quick kiss before slipping a light cardigan on her shoulders. It was the beginning of fall and they were finally having fall temperatures.

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