Erin felt her throat constrict the way it did when she was about to cry. Between how tired she was and how sweet Blair was acting, Erin had to work very hard to not break down. “Thank you. You don’t know how much this means to me. Seriously.”

It was an hour later when Blair arrived, but Erin wasn’t bothered by her lack of timeliness. She was just excited to have her there. It had actually worked out perfectly since Nolan slept for fifty more minutes once she hung up the phone. She could have used that time to get work done, but she took advantage of the peace and quiet and laid her seat back and shut her eyes. She probably looked crazy to her neighbors, sleeping in her driveway like that, but she didn’t care. She woke up feeling refreshed and finally ready to get some work done.

“Thanks again for doing this,” she said as she opened the door for Blair, who looked unfairly good in her tight jean shorts and black t-shirt with a very low V-neck.

She immediately shook these thoughts from her head. She needed to stop thinking like that.

Blair grinned so widely that Erin was practically blinded by her pearly white teeth. “Don’t worry about it. Like I said, I have nothing going on until much later tonight. I’m good for as long as you need me.”

“Big plans later?” Erin knew it was none of her business, but Blair was most likely doing something fun and Erin needed to live vicariously through her.

Blair shrugged. “Just meeting up with some girl I met out at the bar last night.”

“That’s cool. What are you two doing?” As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Erin realized what a dumb question that was, and the way Blair looked from her to Nolan, confirmed that she was right. “Of course. Sorry. It’s been so long since I’ve met up with someone, I think I forgot what it meant.”

Now that she was thinking about it, her thoughts were betraying her, and she was picturing Nolan’s babysitter doing things she definitely should not be picturing her doing. She wondered if Blair took things fast or slow. If she led the girl to her bed or had her way with her right at the door. A fire burned inside of Erin as she pictured how each of these scenarios would look. Holy shit, what the hell is wrong with me?

She closed her eyes to try to clear these thoughts from her head, but it only made it worse. It only made the pictures that much more vivid. Why did she have to be blessed with such a great imagination?

She opened her eyes and immediately brought them to Nolan, which was all she needed. All of her dirty fantasies flew from her mind when she focused on her sweet, innocent child. Phew.