Her Savior

by Sarah J. Brooks

  “You finished your rooms,” I said when the kids and I went upstairs to get their pajamas.

  Not only were their rooms decorated, but they were perfectly designed for each of them. There were matching pillows, toy boxes, and even a poster of Faith’s favorite band on the wall.

  “We used the credit card you left,” Summer said as she stood in her doorway.

  Her hair was soaking wet, and I could smell the scent of candles coming from her room. Hopefully, she had taken advantage of that giant whirlpool tub and gotten a chance to really relax for a little bit.

  “That’s why I left it. I wanted you guys to use it for anything you needed. I’m so excited your rooms are done. What’s your favorite new thing?”

  That question alone ended up costing me an hour of time as Faith and then Thomas showed me every new thing in their rooms. They started by telling me one thing was their favorite and then picked another and another.

  I got Thomas going in the shower and then let Faith show me more things in her room. After a while, I put Faith in the shower while Thomas and I explored his room. It was fun to see all the things they got excited about. I could see Summer’s touch in so many ways.

  By the time I’d read them each three stories and tucked them into bed, I noticed Summer’s light was off in her room. I had hoped we would get a chance to talk a little but decided to let her sleep since she had worked so hard the two weeks I was gone.

  It was nice to be home, and I spent a few minutes picking up around the house so Summer didn’t feel like she had to do it in the morning. When I finally went to my room and looked at my phone, I realized Summer had sent me a text asking me to come talk with her when the kids were in bed.

  The text was sent over two hours earlier, though, and I really didn’t want to wake her up. But I did as she asked and knocked softly on her door.

  “Come in,” she whispered.

  Summer was sitting on her bed with her hair pulled up and a book in her hand. There was a small reading light near the bed, and she couldn’t have looked more adorable. She smiled up at me and motioned for me to come in and sit down.

  “How were the kids? Did they miss you?” she asked playfully.

  “Yeah, I think they did a little bit. I don’t want to keep you up. We can talk tomorrow.”

  “Come here,” she motioned toward the spot next to her as she put her book on the nightstand. “I’ve missed you too.”

  “What?”

  “I missed you. I’m just going for it. If I’m not going to be the nanny anymore, I’m going for it.”

  No sweeter words could have been spoken from what she said right then and there. I hadn’t expected it. I certainly didn’t imagine things between us could work out so easily. I was awestruck as I stayed in the chair and didn’t move for a minute.

  “Are you teasing me?” I asked skeptically after she had so expertly tricked me when it came to the muddy footprints incident.

  “No, I’m not joking,” she said as she seductively walked over to me and straddled me in the chair. “I missed you. I was thinking about you a lot, and I want you in my bed tonight.”

  “There is a God,” I said playfully as I grabbed her ass and pulled her closer to me.

  Our lips gently touched as she gave me a welcome home kiss. Her lips were so soft and delicious that I could hardly stop myself as I became more and more aroused. But I wanted to take my time. I enjoyed being with Summer so much and couldn’t let my excitement spoil the night for either of us.

  Slowly, I let my lips move down her neck and gently play with the top of her bra. I grabbed the bottom of her black T-shirt and yanked it up and over her head as I reached around to release her breasts from the confines of her undergarment. My lips were delighted in the taste of her as I devoured every inch of her exposed skin before finally picking her up and carrying her over to the bed.

  This time I didn’t forget to lock the door though as I jumped back up and playfully winked at Summer while I clicked the lock. She laughed, and I was in heaven. I loved that darn laugh of hers.

  “Come here,” she said playfully as she motioned for me to join her in the bed.

  “Coming dear.”

  As I climbed onto the bed, I started kissing her toes and worked my way up her leg to her inner thigh. She playfully opened her legs and then closed them as she teased me. The moment was everything I loved about this girl. Even after a long two weeks, she was still upbeat and playing.

  My kisses continued up her middle to her breasts and then to her lips. Softly, we moved together while I let my hands pull on her bottoms and take them off of her. She grabbed my shirt and yanked it up and over my head before tugging on my belt buckle to undo me.

  Our pace picked up a little as she pressed my pants down, and I stood up to take them all the way off. I saluted her beside the bed and was about to crawl back in when she leaned over and wrapped her lips around me.

  “Oh … my … God,” I moaned at the delight of feeling her wrapped around me.

  She moved slowly at first but then picked up the pace and moved faster and faster. I could hardly control myself as she took care of me, and my body begged for more and more. Her hands held onto my hips so she was in control, and I loved every second of it.

  But then she stopped. Her bright blue eyes looked up at me as she playfully smiled. She was stopping for good. She had that mischievous look in her eyes, and I was being tortured by her.

  “No, no, no,” I moaned.

  “What? You don’t want me to stop?” she asked coyly.

  “You know what,” I said as I playfully pushed her down on the bed. “I seem to remember someone needed a little payback for that joke about the mud on the carpet.”

  “You wouldn’t dare,” she said with a laugh.

  “I’m going to tease you until you beg me to stop,” I said just before my lips dove between her legs and I started to pleasure her.

  Her moans were quiet, but I felt her body tightening as I delivered the sweet feeling of pleasure to her. She grabbed onto my hair and guided me to just the right spot as her body relished the sweetness of my tongue.

  Harder and harder, I moved against her body until I felt her legs tightening around my head. Then I stopped. I looked up at her with a playful smile and waited for her to realize just what was going on. I was torturing her like she had tortured me.

  “What are you doing?” she said sternly as she looked down at me. “Don’t you dare.”

  “What? Don’t stop?” I teased.

  “Tyler English, don’t you torture me.”

  “Oh, like you tortured me?” I asked as I continued to tease her with quick kisses to her middle. “I mean all is fair in love and war, right?”

  “Sure,” she said as she slipped her hand between her legs and started running her fingers over her own body. “No problem.”

  My eyes widened as she closed her eyes and threw her head back while enjoying her own fingers. Was she doing what I thought I saw her doing? She was literally taking matters into her own hands and leaving me totally hanging. I was not okay with that.

  I reached over to her nightstand and pulled one of the condoms out. As I opened it, I kept my eyes on her body as she wiggled and moaned with the pleasure of her fingers. There was no way I was letting this happen.

  I climbed between her legs, grabbed her hand, and pushed it up and over her head as I pressed my body next to hers.

  “I’ll take things from here,” I said boldly.

  Summer smiled up at me as if she had gotten exactly what she wanted. She tilted her hips and welcomed me into her as she let out a perfect moan of pleasure. Our bodies worked diligently together, and soon we were both moaning from the delight that was being delivered.

  As I felt her body tighten around mine, I let go of one last grunt, and joyful bliss surrounded me. Summer held onto me as her body rocked with pleasure, and we both finally collapsed into each other’s arms.

  This time I wasn’t planning on going a
nywhere, though. No matter what Summer said, I was staying in that bed and enjoying a whole evening of cuddling with her. I pulled her up close to me as she put her head on my chest.

  “That was fun.” She laughed as she kissed my chest lightly. “We should do that again soon.”

  “I’m so glad I’m home.”

  “Me too. I had fun with the kids, but man they are exhausting. I really don’t know how you do it.”

  “I hire good help.” I laughed.

  She gave me a quick kiss and then tucked herself comfortably back onto my chest. The moment was pure perfection, and I couldn’t wait to see where things between the two of us were going next. We could go out on a real date. Maybe even go dancing again and just have a great time together. I really didn’t care what we decided to do as long as we were spending time together.

  I closed my eyes in perfect bliss with my sweet children tucked into their rooms and the most beautiful woman I knew tucked in next to me. I had landed the biggest new client of my career, and absolutely everything in my life was coming together. This was what I’d been working so hard for. This moment was exactly what I had hoped for after so many years of hard work.

  Chapter 15

  Summer

  I was really relieved that Tyler had to run into the office the next day, and I could do some of the initial interviews of the new nannies. I’d talked it over with the agency and knew exactly the sort of woman that would work best for the position. Now I just had to spend some time interviewing them.

  Having the current nanny help to hire the next nanny might have been a little weird, but I thought it was a really good idea. I knew the kids really well, and I knew what sort of person would fit in best with them.

  There were four interviews lined up for the day, but I had gone through the list of people and meticulously picked who I wanted to interview. Each of the potential nannies had to be absolutely perfect before I was going to bother to do an interview with them at all.

  The first woman showed up for the interview fifteen minutes late. She had already lost my vote when she didn’t even apologize for being late. She simply shrugged her shoulders and came in like nothing had happened at all. I humored her and did the interview since she was there, and the next one didn’t start for an hour, but it was pointless. Every answer she gave was tainted by my thoughts of how she hadn’t even acknowledged that she was late.

  The second interview of the day went much better. Her name was Kimberly, and she brought two little toys for the kids from Australia. We talked for the entire hour about her husband and children and how they had recently moved to the neighborhood from Australia. She was a good interviewee as she also had some questions prepared and asked them about the children and the job. Obviously, with a family of her own, she wasn’t interested in living in the house, but since she only lived a mile down the road, it didn’t seem like that would be too much of an issue. I put a big star next to her file as soon as she left. I liked her a lot.

  The third and fourth women that I interviewed both sort of blended together. There wasn’t anything super special about them, and I couldn’t even remember why I had picked them out of all the other resumes I’d reviewed. Each of them answered the questions appropriately and probably would have done a fine job as a nanny, but they didn’t feel like the right fit for Tyler and the kids.

  It was an odd feeling to be interviewing the woman who would take your job, but I was alright with it. My new agent had already lined up three gigs for me, and people were looking at my profile more and more. It hadn’t been long at all, and I already felt excited about finally going after my dream of being a model.

  I wasn’t delusional about it, though. I knew I’d have to start making plans for my long-term future. But I was alright with hanging out and having some fun while I made those plans. Being a nanny had been the hardest job I could remember doing, but successfully figuring the job out was really rewarding. I had much more confidence than I had in the past and felt like I could handle anything the modeling world threw at me.

  After I’d finished the interviews for the day, I drove to the kids’ school to pick them up. I was an expert at getting around the streets in that area now and navigating the school line. It was even comedic to me how nervous I used to be doing this same process that now came easily to me.

  “Summer!” The kids yelled as I stopped in front of the school and they jumped in.

  “Hey guys, how was school?”

  “Boring as usual,” Faith said.

  “I had fun,” Thomas added.

  That was pretty normal for the two of them. If one of them liked something, then the other one didn’t like it at all. Basically, they never wanted to fully agree on anything. We stopped to get an ice cream on the way home so I could talk to them a little more about me leaving.

  It wasn’t going to be a surprise this time, and we had talked several times while Tyler was at his work event. I wanted them to be totally prepared for their emotions and for the stress that came with breaking in a new nanny. Our learning curve together had taken a little bit of time, and I knew it would be similar with the new woman. But if they were prepared ahead of time, I hoped that would help their anxiety.

  “So is today your last day?” Faith asked as she looked grumpily at me.

  “No, I think I’ll probably work through the end of this week.”

  “Are you leaving for good this time?”

  She was so angry at me, and it broke my heart. I loved her a lot, and I didn’t want to hurt her, but I just couldn’t stay working as their nanny. No matter what had gone on between Tyler and me, working for him wasn’t the answer, and I was sure of that.

  I was starting to have my own career now, and that meant I needed to take the time to run after my own dreams. This was such an exciting time in my life that I really was excited, even if it meant I had to deal with some heartache that came along with the excitement.

  “Yes, this time I am leaving as your nanny for good. But we can still be friends. I’ll call and check in on you, and you can tell me all about school and soccer and everything else you have going on.”

  “Are you leaving because Dad was mean to you?” Faith asked with a stern face. “He didn’t mean it. We will make him apologize.”

  “No honey, your dad didn’t have anything to do with this decision. I am working on some of my own dreams, and that means I’m not going to have time to be your nanny.”

  Faith softened up a little bit while she finished her ice cream, but I was pretty sure she wasn’t happy with me at all. It was uncomfortable, and I didn’t like that feeling, but it was much better than when I had just left and had to tell them all of a sudden. That day had been horrible and made me feel bad for what I was doing to them.

  We stopped off at their favorite playground on the way home and played for a little while to get some of their energy out before heading home. I really just wanted them to have an amazing last day with me and remember how much I cared about them.

  I had already sent Kimberly a text message to see if she could come back over for a visit later this evening. Nothing too major – just an opportunity for her to meet with the kids and Tyler while I was there to help break the ice a little.

  It was nerve-wracking to think that this woman might be the one taking over my job, and that I could move on and follow my dreams. I’d never been so close to my dreams while also having so many positive people around me and feeling like I was actually being responsible and doing what was right for the people I cared about and not just for myself.

  Sleeping with Tyler wasn’t planned, and I had only decided to do it after seeing him and realizing just how much I missed him. Watching the kids love on him when he got home from his trip and seeing how much he truly missed them had been absolutely adorable.

  I wouldn’t take back our last evening together for anything, though. I knew he was probably thinking that I was going to stick around, and we could date and have this fabulous relationship, and I
had those thoughts too at one point, but I changed my mind. I wasn’t the type of girl who could just forget about things very easily, and I honestly knew that I’d always be thinking about how we met and the animosity I had over being his nanny and falling for him.

  One of the things my father taught me when I was younger was that you had to know when a situation wasn’t working any longer. He had taught me in relation to business when he was making me go with him to his office and trying to get me to learn his company. But some of the things stuck with me, and I had thought about them throughout the years.

  He said that ending a business relationship could happen on good terms or bad and that all depended on timing. If you had time to plan a good exit, then you could maintain the business relationship down the road. However, if you were emotional and left suddenly, it was burning a bridge that you might need later on.

  At the time, I have to admit, my father’s wisdom was lost on me. I’d forgotten all about it until I stormed out of Tyler’s house and quit during our argument. But I was seeing now that my father was a smart man, and his advice rang really true.

  We pulled up to the house, and my stomach fluttered with nerves. It was going to come as a surprise to Tyler that I’d actually interviewed some nannies. He and I had briefly talked about me doing the interviews when I agreed to come back, but we hadn’t discussed it since then, and I had a feeling he was going to be a little bit angry about the whole thing.

  I was nervous as I didn’t know whether I was going to be able to maintain my cool and keep this interaction as positive as possible. The way I handled everything in the next few hours was going to determine if the kids and Tyler liked this woman, and if they decided to hire her.

  “Be extra nice to your dad tonight, okay guys?” I said as they ran inside.

  Tyler was already home, which was pretty unusual. He’d talked about slowing down a bit after getting home, and I liked that he was actually doing it and making an effort to be home for the kids. Although I did plan on working the rest of the week, I was hoping I would get to work with Kimberly so I could train her and help with the transition. That meant I had to have Tyler and the kids meet her tonight and see if they were ready to hire her.