Found Her

Maya

It's all her things. I wonder why we did not get rid of her things yet? Mike is with Cathy in the living room. She is sleeping in his arms and I go and gather all the things in that room in a couple of boxes and throw it in the garbage. The bed and the walls can stay. Maybe we will repaint it soon? Mike will be able to do something with the room for sure.

I come back down and they are cuddling. Go on. At least someone's cuddle-worthy in this house even if it's not me.

"Hey, why are you frowning?" Mike asks me trying not to smile.

"I have thrown all her things out. You do something with the walls and the bed in the room, okay?"

"Okaaayyy?"

I nod and turn around. "where are you going?"

"To order things online."

"For?" :P

Such a dork.

I turn around and head to my study.

I order a hoard of new stuff. Clothes, stuffies, blankets, socks, bottles, sippy cups, high chair, coloring books, sketch pens, pacifiers, candies, story books, pillows and a couple of shoes. I stop when Mike calls me for lunch. We are having pizza. Good. Okay. Fine.

Mike's Pov

Carl looks rattled and that is, to say the least. He doesn't want to admit that he likes Cathy as much as I do and that she is not Maya. He doesn't know what to feel. I want to give him s**t about shopping for her but I let it be. Of course he is bothered that Catherine is scared of him. Not that it's her fault. Carl is intimidating, but he is also the best man I have ever known all my life. He is caring, kind and loyal. He loves you for you, but it's difficult to get to know him with that stoic exterior impression that he gives people. He is a better man than I am. Catherine will know. I smile at myself.

"What are you smiling at dork?" He tells me.

"Don't you abuse in front of a little girl." I look at Cathy, but she is too much of a good girl to use bad words.

"It's not like she is our little." He tells me.

Sure. That is why you ordered things for her.

"I dun wanna go back, daddy.. " Cathy whispers and hides into me before I can say anything. "Pwease don't make me go back."

She is into her headspace and I hope she will still want to be with us once she is not. She is so adorable. It's difficult not to fall in love with her.

Carl looks at her tenderly too.

"You can stay here baby if Carl is up-to it. We come together you see." I tell her gently.

She is too afraid to ask Carl to let her stay.

She turns to me with teary eyes. "He beat me, daddy. With a stick and locked me in a dark room. Pwease don't make me go back. Pwease."

Fuck.

"It's okay sweetheart. You don't have to go anywhere. You can be here for as long as you like." Carl says, despite himself. Cathy relaxes into my arms again after giving Carl an awkward half smile.

"Would you be our little?" Carl asks her.

And he thought I was the one falling in love with you.

"your little." She says and hugs me.

Ouch.

"No baby. We can't do it that way. It's either both of us or none." I tell her sternly before Carl tries to interrupt me and tell me it's okay. He does that all the time. Every single new f*****g person is scared of him and it's so sad. He is a softie. I promise.

She nods.

"I need words baby," I tell her and pull her back to look at her face solemnly.

"Okay."

"Okay, what?"

"Okay yes."

"Yes, what?"

"You know what!" She huffs and hugs me back.

I smile.

How are you liking the book, my tribe? :) For a change, the little came to the daddies and was not kidnapped and forced to be with them! :) please let me know what do you think of the story so far in the comments below! Love it? Like it? Hate it?? I have plans for this one which depends on how you respond to the characters. Should the daddies be together and be caregivers to Cathy? Or should all of them be together? Or should it be Cathy with one of them, if yes, then with whom? Talk to me in the comments below! :)

Kisses x