Daddy's Little Lacey (Ryan Gosling)

Chapter 2

"It's not polite to mumble Lacey"
"I'm sorry" my reply is instant, I'm used to apologising quickly after being reprimanded.
"Good girl" he says moving his attention back to my files. 

"I'm sorry- what did you call me?" I say in a confused yet polite tone
"It says here you're turning 20 in a few weeks"
"That's right, but what did you call me before-"
"Have you planned anything?" I realise he's avoiding the topic, he's really weirded me out but at the same time I kind of liked it.
Wow I remember how much of a weirdo I thought I was at that moment, being turned on by some random rich guy who scolded me for mumbling.
"Earth to Lacey" I snap out of my daydream
"huh?"
"I asked if you had anything planned for your birthday"
"oh, sorry doctor. No not really."
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It was the big day, the day I turned the big 20. I had been out of hospital for about two weeks, they kept me in for some more tests. I didn't see Doctor Steele after that day he scolded me for no reason but he was soon forgotten. I'd started working again last week, I had a home fashion design and alteration business- I made people anything they wanted and I had a few orders backed up. I loved my job, it let me do work when I pleased, I also had a makeup business on the weekends, a lot of young girls who were going out on Fridays and Saturdays would come over and id get them ready before they went out. I lived right in the city, down the road from the major clubs which flourished my little business.
Tonight was my birthday and I had my sister, Lily over for some drinks as I had my last make up client for the night. Her name was Franny and she was a regular party girl, which meant regular client for me. She often popped over with a group of friends and I sometimes did a quick touch up of their makeup for an extra $20. The door buzzed just as my favourite song came on over the old mtv reruns we always played when my sister and I caught up and had a couple drinks. "That'll be Franny" I sigh dragging my feet over to the intercom "come up Fran" I say pressing the door to let them up. "What if it wasn't Franny, what if it was an axe murderer?" Lily jokes pouring herself another glass
"Oh shush you" I chuckle unlocking the door and walking back to claim the freshly poured glass" the door knocks "yes its open" I exclaim and turn back to Lily, "Its unlocked every time, and I say the same thing every time, you'd think she stop knocking before coming in every time" I roll my eyes and take a large gulp as I look up at my sisters expression. I was faced away from the door and she looked like she had seen a ghost.
"It's dangerous to keep your door unlocked Lacey" It's him! That deep husky voice!
"What are you doing here" I spin myself around so fast I spill half my glass of cheap wine on the white carpet, the deep red make it look like a crime seen.
"Hospital sends out aftercare for patients in your case"
"Yeah they do... but a nurse has already come to see me..." I stand there confused and blank.
"Can we go somewhere more private?" he requests gazing over my shoulder at the even more confused Lily.
"Lace? What's going on?" my sister approaches me and places her hand on my shoulder "is everything alright"
"Yeah fine, um. I'm going to go with Dr. Steele for a bit"
"Oh! This is Dr.Steele" she points grinning
"Yes sis..." I blush.
"What about Franny?"
"Um can you try and give her a call to cancel" I say staring into the doctors eyes
"Um sure sis, you sure everything's okay?" she waves her hand in front of my face trying to grab my attention
"Yes! Sorry" I begin to blush again.
Dr Steele takes my hand and we arrive in a taxi at a fancy Japanese restaurant. We sit in a private booth and he stares at me silently as the waiter brings in plates of food every ten minutes until there is a buffet of untouched food between us. He begins asking me questions and quizzing me about my life and past relationships. "What do you want from me?" I finally question, he stares back at me and finally confesses his thoughts "Do you know what a little space is Lacey?" he said it. What I'd wondered this whole. It was exactly what I'd guessed. My face froze in shock. "Ah so you do!" he was good at reading me, my emotions and my facial cues, it was like he could see straight through me. "I want you to be mine" he says, biting into a piece of sushi. "I want you to come live with me and be mine"
"Isn't this a little too fast?" I say "I mean, that's even fast for a normal relationship"
"You're saying what I want isn't normal? Lacey" his tone becomes stern.
"No I wasn't meaning- its just- it's just all very quick" I begin fidgeting my fingers and picking at my nail polish, he looks down at my fingers and goes to say something but pulls back. "I just don't understand why so quick"
"I know when I've got a good thing Lacey and I don't want to let it slip away" He smiles, I can hear the sincerity in his voice as he looks at with his kind but stern eyes.
After we finish dinner he drops me home and he says he will pick me up in the morning and take me to see his house to hear my decision. We discussed his offer all night. He said I have to live with him but I can get my own room where I can sleep until I am comfortable sleeping in his bed every night. I can decorate my room however I want with the help of an interior decorator who will be there tomorrow so that my room will be ready if and when I decide to move in. I can have my own free time but I have to live on his schedule and I get a set of rules that I have to obey otherwise I will be punished. I sat up all night tossing and turning, trying to figure out what Id do.

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"Im glad you came." Dr Steele says as I approach his front door, he had sent out a long black limo and a driver to collect me just after breakfast.
"You sent for me so early I didn't have time to put on makeup"
"Makeup?" he chuckles, pretty girls don't need makeup, we will talk about that one later. I enter the front door, all I can say is wow! The entry foyer is bigger that my apartment. The floor is this beautiful grey, waxed marble that glimmers in the sun beaming from the skylights in the ceiling that appears to be 4 stories high. I get a quick tour of the house and am shown to my potential room last. It is massive, the walls are bare white with floor to ceiling windows and a georgious bay window with a seat that looks onto the garden that seems to go on for acres. "I got the gardeners to plant all those flowers there for you." He points out the window and the garden patch filled with white and pink flowers. I blush and giggle.
"This is amazing, thank you doctor."
"Uh uh" he shakes his head and hold up his index finger "to you I am sir or daddy." The room is filled with silence "that is if you want to be mine?" he smiles and extends his hand for me to hold.
"Your what?" He hesitates for a second as he looks for the perfect words.
"My babygirl." He says with a smile, still with his hand out for me. I squeal and push his hand out of the way to hug him. "I'll take that as a yes then?"
"Oh yes daddy! Yes yes." I squeal holding him tighter. I come up to his chest so I am the perfect height for snuggling into him.
"You're my perfect little girl." he leans down and kisses the top of my head.
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