Secret Daddy Read online B.B. Hamel (Dark Daddies #8)

Categories Genre: Alpha Male, BDSM, Contemporary, Dark, Erotic, Romance Tags Authors: Series: Dark Daddies Series by B.B. Hamel
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Total pages in book: 37
Estimated words: 36168 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 181(@200wpm)___ 145(@250wpm)___ 121(@300wpm)
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That night, I bunk downstairs on the couch. I figure, she wants me to stay downstairs, so I’ll stay downstairs.

Plus, I think I can react to any threats more easily from down here. Up there, I’m basically cut off. Downstairs is a little more open and I feel like I have access to more of the house.

Doesn’t matter, though. All is quiet all night, and I even get a few hours of sleep. More than I’d get on a late-night patrol out in the desert, at least.

In the morning, I get up and head into the kitchen. I’m tired but it’s warm out, so I leave the shirt behind and put some coffee on. She has some fancy drip machine and fancy coffee, the sort of shit I never even tasted before. Takes me a bit to figure it all out, but once I do, it smells damn good brewing as I lean up against the counter and wait.

I hear some soft steps on the stairs. I tense a little, not sure why. Maybe because I left my shirt behind. I’m supposed to be a fucking professional, after all, but oh, well.

Katie comes into the kitchen. She’s wearing these tiny little shorts, basically panties, and this practically see-through white t-shirt that clings to her body. Her hair is a little messy from sleep and even with dark circles and a yawn on her lips, she looks fucking gorgeous.

She stops and stares at me. I feel her eyes roam my body, looking at the scars from countless shrapnel wounds and even a couple bullets, and the tattoos that crisscross my skin. I bet this girl’s never seen the likes of me before in her too-perfect little life.

I grin at her. “Morning, sweetheart. Want some coffee?”

That seems to snap her out of it. “Uh, why aren’t you wearing a shirt?”

I grin a little at that. “It was warm so I left it behind. Didn’t think you’d be up this early.”

She winces a little and I wonder if she hadn’t planned on getting up early, either.

“We’re leaving today so I thought I’d get an early start,” she says breezily.

She still lingers on the threshold, not sure what to do. The coffee finishes so I pour myself a mug and her one.

“Cream and sugar?” I ask.

She shakes her head. “Black.”

I grin. “That’s my girl.”

“Not your girl.” She finally walks over and takes the mug from my hand. “Keep your shirt on from now on.”

“Too distracting?” I grin at her. “You’re pretty distracting yourself.”

She glares at me, but she turns a little red. “It’s unprofessional.”

“Understood, sweetheart.”

“And stop calling me that.”

“Nah. You need a new Daddy, just like I said.”

I can see the anger flare up in her. I like that, the fight she has.

“You should stop saying that,” she warns.

I let that slide past. “You want breakfast?”

“Excuse me?”

I open the refrigerator. “Breakfast. You know, eggs, bacon, all that shit. You got any bacon in here?”

“No, I don’t have bacon,” she says.

“Eggs then? Got any Bisquick or something for pancakes?”

“No,” she says. “Wait, you’re cooking me food now?”

“Might as well. I was about to make myself something, might as well feed you too.”

She stares at me for a second, expression softening. “Didn’t think you could cook.”

“Oh, we learn a lot in the marines. Gotta learn to cook, at least a little bit. Never know when it’ll come in handy.”

I find some eggs, these little piddly free-range bullshit eggs, but they’ll do.

“Aren’t you special?” she says vaguely.

I laugh at that. “I know. It gets old, listening to me talk about the Corps. I guess I don’t know anything else”

“How long did you serve?”

I hesitate a second, frowning. “Joined up the second I turned eighteen and I’m forty-four now. So the majority of my life.”

She looks surprised. “You’ve been in the military for that long?”

I shrug a little. “The only life I ever knew, until they told me I got too old to fight.”

“Too old to fight?” She sits down on a stool and stares at me. “You don’t look, uh, out of shape.”

I smirk at her. “I know I don’t. I’m still a goddamn trim killing machine. But I guess they didn’t want an old man fighting their war anymore. Thought maybe I deserved a nice retirement.”

“So what happened?” she asks. “I mean, something must’ve, or else you wouldn’t be here.”

I hesitate a second and sigh. “Retirement didn’t sound fun,” I say finally. “I want to fight. Still do, I guess. So here I am, working private security for your bratty ass.”

She glares at me, the anger back again. “I’m not a brat. You don’t even know me, asshole.”

“Fair enough, but you’re still a brat.”

She throws up her hands, rolls her eyes, and starts looking at her phone like I don’t exist.

That suits me just fine.



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