“Mierda! God damn freaking crap!” She grabbed the phone picking it up to check that she hadn’t accidentally ended the call. “Are you still there?”
“Yes. Interesting language you have there, Mari-girl.”
Whoops.
“Sorry, the phone fell off the table and I thought I’d lost you.”
“I’m right here, teeny,” he said in a low croon that sent a shiver through her blood. “And if you’d lost me you know how to find me again, huh?”
Right. She sure did. She just panicked.
“Right. Sorry.” And teeny? Where had that come from?
“It’s okay. Go to the bathroom. I promise, I’m not going anywhere.”
Wow. He knew just what to say to make her knees go weak.
You met him yesterday. You’ve known him twenty-four hours. Sure, it felt like it had been longer. They’d just talked for over an hour and it had seemed like five minutes. It felt natural and right. But she had to remember that this was a temporary thing. She had to leave.
She brushed her teeth, washed her face and used the toilet. She took her blood sugar level again.
It definitely seemed like being around him was a good thing for her body and her emotions.
After climbing back into bed, she reached for the phone. “I’m in bed.”
“Good girl. Teeth brushed?”
“Yes.” She blushed a bit at the question. It was something a Daddy might ask.
Don’t think about that right now. Last thing she wanted to do was blurt something out inadvertently.
Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
“The light’s off? You got everything you need for bed?”
Her snuggly? Check. Princess Nana? Check. Nightlight? Check. She turned off the bedside lamp.
“Yes. I’ve got everything I need. And the light is off.”
“Good girl. Is there anything else you usually do before bed?”
“I read.”
“Hmm, well, I don’t have any stories here to read to you. I might have to make one up, that okay?”
“Yes.” Daddy.
Christ, that was close. She bit her lip. She really had to watch herself.
“What’s your favorite animal?”
“Dragons.”
“Dragons?”
Her eyes popped wide open and she groaned. Idiot.
“Hmm, you do realize that dragons aren’t real, don’t you?”