Total pages in book: 152
Estimated words: 155037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 775(@200wpm)___ 620(@250wpm)___ 517(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 775(@200wpm)___ 620(@250wpm)___ 517(@300wpm)
She stopped and took a breath. Then a drink of water. She gave it a surprised look as though she hadn’t realized she was holding her sippy cup.
Loki grinned and glanced over at Remy to see his lips twitching.
“You want a slide?” Remy asked.
“Yep! A water slide!”
“No water slide,” Loki told her firmly. “But I’ve done some research and found a slide that should work.”
“Oh yay! Thanks, Ki-Ki.”
He kissed the top of her head and grabbed her bagel, buttering it. Then he took the sippy cup from her hand and replaced it with the bagel.
She kept talking, pausing to take a mouthful of bagel.
Remy’s gaze was intent on them and Loki paused. This was something he was used to doing all the time.
Remy just nodded at him.
“That sounds amazing, baby girl,” Remy said. “You’re lucky Loki can build all of that for you.”
“He’s the bestest.” She laid her face against his bicep.
Bestest, huh?
“How about we work on the treehouse for a few hours,” Remy said. “And then maybe after lunch we can go to that store you were talking about. The one with toys for Bigs and Littles.”
Loki glanced down at Isa as she blushed with pleasure.
“That sounds like the perfect idea.”
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Remy finished hammering in a board.
With the two of them working, the treehouse was coming along really quickly.
And with Isa’s supervision, of course.
She was sitting in a chair that Loki had set up for her, with Razzie in her lap. There were a pair of oversized sunglasses perched on her nose. They were heart-shaped with rhinestones all the way around the edge.
Today she was wearing a gorgeous pink pinafore and black tights as well as a long-sleeved white shirt underneath. She also had on a pair of pink boots that Loki had put on her while she was telling Remy more about the treehouse.
The way he took care of her . . . making sure she ate and drank . . . that she had everything she needed, it spoke of familiarity that meant this had been their rhythm for years.
“Can I comes up?” She cleared her throat. “I mean can I come up?”
She was clearly trying to stop herself from going fully into Little headspace, but she’d been riding that edge all morning. Remy didn’t like that she was holding back.
He wondered how he could help her feel more comfortable.
“Yep, just let me get the ladder and hold it for you,” Loki said, climbing down the tree.
“Ki-Ki, I can climb a tree.”
“In a pinafore dress?” Loki replied.
“It would be a challenge, but I think I could do it.”
“You’ll take the ladder,” Remy told her firmly.
Loki got the ladder and held it while she climbed up with Razzie in her mouth. Remy reached through and lifted her up the rest of the way.
She drew Razzie out of her mouth and smiled up at him. “Isn’t it great in here?”
“You like it, Tink?” Loki asked as he climbed up, carrying a picnic basket.
“Yes!” Turning, she hugged Loki, who had taken his shirt off earlier.
Loki hugged her back. “You want to have your snack up here?”
“I’m not really hungry. Thanks.” She wandered around as Loki took a muffin out of the basket. He took the wrapper off and then popped it into her hand.
She stared down at it, then shrugged and started eating.
Loki offered him one and Remy took it with a nod of thanks.
“I thinks I might create some things to go in here,” she said as she finished off the muffin. “Can I?”
“You can make whatever you like, Tink,” Loki said, handing her sippy cup to her. “After you drink all this water.”
She pouted but started drinking.
Yep. Loki had this Daddy Dom stuff down. At least this side of it. And neither of them really seemed to realize it.
Loki helped her down and when he returned, Remy moved over to him. “Do you know you’ve been her Daddy Dom for years?”
Loki looked at him wide-eyed. “What do you mean?”
“The way you take care of her. Making sure she’s fed, that she drinks, keeping her from doing things that are too dangerous, giving her what she needs. Only thing she’s probably missing are some rules and discipline.”
Loki rubbed the back of his neck with his hand. “I have some rules for her.”
Remy raised his eyebrows.
“I didn’t really think of them in that way,” he said sheepishly. “But I don’t let her touch any of my power tools. If it snows, she isn’t allowed out until I’ve dug out the footpath and declared it safe. If it’s snowing, she doesn’t drive. When she’s out drinking, she calls me to get her, not a taxi or someone else. Things like that.”
“If she breaks the rules?”
“Um. I give her a scolding?”
“Well, now you can give her a spanking.”
Loki froze for a moment. Then he grinned. “I like that.”