Engrossed Reader’s Reviews > Hush, Little Baby > Status Update

Who would have thought being called Daddy would have turned Nick feral. A tad of dub con ensues.

"Daddy, it’s too much, no, Daddy, please—”
“You can take it,” he growls, voice deadly soft in my ear. “You were made for this. Daddy’s gonna ruin you.”

Delulu

“Niko,” he says, a broken syllable, and then, softer, “Daddy.” Time freezes. My body reacts so violently it’s a goddamn miracle I don’t finish in my pants, right then and there. I almost do. The word detonates inside my skull, echoing off the walls of old wounds and fantasies I’d never let out in daylight."

"There is a moment, hovering between sleep and waking, when all my wolfish instincts dissolve into something gentler, more bone-deep. I realize I’ve built a life for this boy without even knowing him—picked out the clothes, the toys, the bedtime rituals, the stories—and that it wasn’t madness at all, but a kind of instinctual preparation. Like I have always known I would find a pup in need, a boy in need. .."

I still don't get the allure of being a little. I'm here for the deranged kidnapper aka Daddy

"I end up eating my lunch while on Nikolaus’s lap as he and Constantine discuss work-related matters."

"Later, after dinner, when Nikolaus brings me back up to my room, I’m not feeling as little as I had been earlier in the day, so as Nikolaus is sitting in the big rocking chair, watching me paint a farm with watercolors"

So far I'm pretty chilled about the kidnapping, well managed, everyone knows their role

"I stare at the duck, my heart twisting. There’s a narrow silk ribbon tied around its neck, white with a faint cotton scent. I trace the ribbon with my fingertip, in awe of it. The duck should probably rile me, since I’m sure it was my captor who placed him in here with me. Nikolaus. The strange, big man who wants to be my Daddy