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"Daddy is all you need, baby. Nothing and no one else. Just me. Just Daddy."

"Madie. What are you doing here?"

She didn't answer for a while. Her body was turned to me, and her hands were together. Her feet were also shifting here weight from left to right. She was nervous. Around me.

It took everything in me not to coo at her. She was adorable.

"Uhm..." she mumbled, her voice stuttering a bit "Ellie."

I couldn't hear her, maybe because she was a bit far. And she was mumbling her words. Her head moved and she looked at the floor, getting all shy.

I smiled gently at her, even though she wasn't looking at me. "I didn't catch that, sweetheart. What was that?"

She shifted her feet again, before moving her head back and looking at me. She was blushing now. 

Adorable.

"Ellie." mumbling once again.

"No mumbling, baby. I can't hear you." There was no reprimanding in my voice. I