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I tipped my head to the side, giving up the impossible task of remaining stoic around her. “Yeah? You got muscle?”
She tossed down her hair tools and lifted her arms, flexing the little biceps she had. I shook my head in amusement, and she shrugged, motioning her hands down the length of her body, her leg extended out to the side, posing. “It’s okay to admit you’re jealous.”
My smile faded, and I cleared my throat, as I forced my attention up from where it hovered around her thighs. They were thick and lush, and I blinked away the picture of my fingers pressed into her soft skin there.
I couldn’t fantasize about Finn’s nanny that way.
“Yeah, so…” I pointed to the room across the hall. “You and Finn will share a bathroom. I have one in my room too, and there’s a half bath downstairs next to the laundry closet.”
“Do you need help with laundry?” she asked, unpacking her things from her suitcase, starting with clothes, which she placed into the empty drawers of the chest by the window.
“Please. That would be really great.”
“And what about cleaning?”
“I have someone come in once a month for a deep cleaning, but it’s the day-to-day stuff that I feel like I can’t catch up on.”
“I noticed your dining room table.”
“Yeah.” It currently held dirty dishes that were I didn’t know how old, my laptop and charger, a bunch of random puzzle pieces, and glitter slime. Because some parent in Finn’s preschool class apparently hated the rest of us and gave each kid glitter slime for their daughter’s birthday. “I need help tidying up.”
She smiled over her shoulder as she shut the drawer. “Got it.”
“I don’t expect you to?—”
A sharp cry from Finn’s room interrupted me, and I checked the time on my watch. He should have still been asleep for another half hour or so.
“Et-Et-Et-Et!”
I held my hand up to Kennedy, half apology-half wince, then headed into the next room. With his hands wrapped around the bars at the end of his toddler bed, my son jumped up and down like a tiny prisoner hopped up on sugar.
“Guy, why aren’t you asleep?”
“Et!”
“Get,” I corrected him. “Get me up, please.”
I put his glasses on him and slung him to my side. “I want you to meet someone who’s gonna help take care of you. Her name’s Kennedy.”
As we rounded the door of her room, she finished hanging something in the closet then pivoted to us, her face lighting up.
“Finn, this is Kennedy. Kennedy, this is my son, Finn.”
She closed the distance between us, so close I got a good whiff of her sugar-and-flowers scent. With our height difference, she and Finn were nearly eye to eye.
“Hi, Finn. I like your T-shirt.”
He patted his shirt then held his hand out to Kennedy, and she stepped close enough that he could pat her shirt too. It was loose-fitting with frilly sleeves and tassels on the front, where it gaped a bit, displaying just enough of her cleavage that I had to keep my head up so I wasn’t staring down at her tits.
“You like my shirt too?” she asked. “I wore it today because purple’s my favorite color. What’s your favorite color?”
Finn didn’t answer. Merely flopped around until I put him down. Then he ran around what was now Kennedy’s bedroom, knocking over a floor lamp.
She gasped and kneeled on the floor at Finn’s side, but he popped back up and took off again.
“Like a wild animal,” I mumbled and righted the lamp before helping her to stand.
“I Googled that Tasmanian Devil cartoon you mentioned, and I see what you mean.”
