Page 50 of Her Hero Daddy

She reached up and ran her fingertips along his jawline, feeling the scratchiness of his beard. Her touch melted him completely. They sat for several minutes, forehead to forehead, with her hand gently caressing his face while he rubbed the back of her other hand with his thumb.

“You need to get some sleep, baby alligator. I will get ahold of Luke and see about having them come over tomorrow. Do you need anything before I leave?”

“I thought we were painting each other’s nails?” she asked, grinning.

He couldn’t help but laugh. She was too cute.

“Maybe tomorrow. For now, you need your sleep.”

He stood from the bed and pulled her covers up to her chin, tucking them gently around her.

“See ya later, alligator.”

Her eyes were already fluttering shut when he walked toward the door.

“In a while, crocodile,” she whispered before he left the room.

Returning to his office with a warm feeling inside him, Kane called Luke to check in and ask if they would come over the next day. His warm mood went cold when Luke told him there was still no sign of Tim. It gave him the uneasy feeling that the asshole was heading up to Oregon and that they needed to be ready. Not that he wasn’t ready. He was completely ready to squash the guy like a bug and then put his body up in the mountains close by so when an avalanche happened, he would never be found again. Yeah, he probably shouldn’t be thinking that way. It sounded too premeditated.

Luke agreed to bring Ally over the next day. Of course, as soon as Luke agreed to that, Kane could hear Ally squealing in the background.

When he headed back upstairs to go to bed, he couldn’t resist peeking in on Haylee to make sure she was asleep. He had left the door slightly ajar when he left her room earlier, so it wasn’t like he was just opening her door and looking in. The dim glow of the star lamp allowed enough light for him to see her curled up under the blankets, clutching the stuffed alligator to her chest with her thumb in her mouth.

Huh… If that doesn’t scream Little, I don’t know what does.

You can’t just assume, idiot.

But she didn’t deny it when you told her you thought she was a Little.

Stepping back from her bedroom, he went into his room and got in the shower. It didn’t take long in the shower before he found himself stroking himself as thoughts of Haylee ran through his mind. He wanted to run his hands all over her body and bury his face into her sweet mound. He pictured himself doing just that as he came, letting out a deep groan of satisfaction. Not the kind of satisfaction that he would actually get from touching her and being inside her, but enough so he could fall asleep without the pain of an aching cock.

The next day was quiet. Haylee decided to stay in her room and rest. She was feeling extra tired, which worried him. He took meals up to her and used his stern look to strongly encourage her to eat. She wasn’t much into eating, but he couldn’t allow her to get away with skipping meals or barely picking at her food. She needed to gain weight, and if he had to, he would… well… he didn’t know what he would do. He couldn’t exactly spank her into eating. At least not yet. She wasn’t his and hadn’t agreed to that. But he would figure out something. Even if he had to blend her food up and put it in a baby bottle to get it into her, he would.

It was a little after three in the afternoon when Luke and Ally knocked on the door.

“Hi, Kane! Where’s Haylee?” Ally asked excitedly.

Luke chuckled and shook his head, “Someone is excited to see her bestie.”

Ally smiled up adoringly at Luke before sticking her tongue out at him. Kane laughed, even though he probably shouldn’t have. He was glad he wasn’t the only one who got the wrath of “the stuck-out tongue.” Luke raised his eyebrows down at her, and she gave him the biggest, cheesiest smile Kane had ever seen.

“You are so lucky you’re cute, little girl, otherwise you’d be finding yourself over my lap getting a spanking right in front of Kane.”

Ally blushed so red that both men chuckled. Luke reached out and tilted her chin up to look at him, giving her a kiss on the forehead.

“Haylee is upstairs in the spare room if you want to go see her. She’s tired today, so she’s been resting. I think she’s watching a movie in there.”

Ally clapped her hands and took the bag that Luke held.

“Goody! I brought coloring books so we could color. That’s easy to do while you’re tired.”

She took the bag and disappeared up the stairs. Luke watched her go and then turned his attention to Kane.

“Soooo… How’s it going over here?” he asked as casually as he could.

Kane rolled his eyes and walked to the kitchen, pouring them both a cup of coffee.

“It’s going fine. I think. I’m trying to give her time and space to heal. I don’t want to be overbearing and scare her. It’s damn hard, though.”