Page 25 of Needing Daddy

“Okay!” Lucy agreed, without looking up from her colouring.

Penny took her tea and followed Allie upstairs.

The hastily made bed indicated that she’d been right about how her sister had spent the afternoon. A shaft of envy pierced her heart. She missed David so much. She realised that Allie was talking and she’d missed most of what her sister was saying.

“I don’t know where that came from!”

The end of Allie’s sentence was all that Penny had heard.

“Sorry, can you explain that again?” she asked.

“At my peak in bed with Jack, I called out‘Daddy.’I’ve never done that before. I don’t think he noticed, thank goodness, but why would I do that? I mean, I have read a few, you know, daddy dom books,” she lowered her voice. “You said that you’d previously lived an age-play lifestyle, and so I thought I’d ask.” Her voice tapered off.

“You believe me?” Penny asked, surprised.

“I-I thought about all those photographs of you and that man, David, and the one of me with the lady doctor, and well, I know you would never lie to me, so...” She shrugged.

Penny yanked her sister into a hug. The two women snuggled together. Penny inhaled the familiar scent that was her sister Allie in both worlds. All at once the desolation she’d been feeling ever since she’d arrived here dissipated. She still had her sister. She felt tears welling.

“Thank God. I have been so lonely without you and Dad, Sis,” she said, her voice rough with emotion.

Allie gave her a squeeze. “I’m sorry it’s taken me a while to be there for you. It, well, just seemed too preposterous to contemplate. I imagine you must miss Dad. One thing Penny and I promised after our parents died was that no matter what, we’d be there for one another.”

Penny pulled away, afraid that if she cried, it would be difficult to stop. “Thank you. I have felt so alone,” she muttered.

“Oh, Penny, I’m sorry!”

“S’okay,” she mumbled, wiping her eyes.

Allie moved to the bed and sitting down, she patted the covers next to her. “How about you come here tomorrow and we talk properly and work out a plan of action?”

Penny settled beside her. “I’d like that. I’ve already found David.”

Allie’s eyes widened. “What? Where?” she asked.

“In London, he works as a hedge fund manager in the city, in the Square Mile.”

“We need to work out how you can meet him,” Allie mused.

“Oh, I’ve met him, three times in fact.” She enjoyed seeing the look of astonishment on her sister’s face.

“Dinner’s ready!” Jack’s voice boomed up the stairs.

“Come on, let’s eat. Tomorrow you must come here and tell me all about it. Maybe I can help,” Allie said, rising.

“Yeah, and you can tell me all about your dirty afternoon withDaddy!” Penny teased. Allie blushed and punched her arm playfully.

* * *

The next day Pennytexted David to tell him that Pippin, aka Oscar, had been reunited with his owners. She left for Allie’s house, stopping for Danish pastries en route. Her phone pinged in the baker’s shop. David replied that it was good that the owner had been traced. She was disappointed by the brevity of the message.

After the sumptuous tea he’d treated her to at the Ritz, she’d expected a much warmer response from him. However, because she was on her way to her sister’s, who now believed that she was telling the truth that she was from another dimension, and one where she’d been married to David, the message didn’t sting as much as it might have otherwise.

Penny was intrigued by her sister’s admission that she’d called Jack ‘Daddy’ during sex. The intimacies of their mutual relationships had never been discussed in her previous life, probably because Allie and she had been of a different sexual orientation. To be able to share confidences about their respective men was a silver lining in this otherwise topsy-turvy world.

It was nice to have the house all to themselves for a change. They took their coffee and Danish into the sunny living room and settled on the couch.

“So are you going to tell me why you think you called Jack Daddy?” Penny jumped right in with the subject that had been intriguing her all night.

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