“I’m going to go hit the shower.” Austin’s abrupt announcement caused Sara’s eyelids to flutter as she glanced up at him. When she did, a grin that really could only be described as bad boy spread on his face. “Enjoy your breakfast.”
With that, he left the way he’d come, through the pocket door in the wall behind them. Sara watched the door shut, feeling like she’d just survived a testosterone tsunami. She was shaky. Her heart was pounding and her entire body was tingling.
“Mom, I don’t want to take baths anymore. I want to take showers,” Trevor stated as he sat up taller in his chair.
Sara couldn’t blame her son for his obvious admiration of Austin, considering the man inspired all kinds of admiration in her.
“I want to take showers too, Mommy,” Charlotte declared.
“Let’s finish breakfast, guys. We have to meet your friends at the community center.” Last night, Brynn asked if Charlotte and Trevor wanted to join the Summer Days kids program she was running with the help of her “teen squad” as she called them, which consisted of Ali’s twin nephews, KJ and Ricky, Brynn’s son Ryder and Axel’s sister Izzy, Chrissy’s daughter Fiona, and their friend Presley. The teens had spearheaded the program because it would look good on their college applications and Brynn had ended up being roped into it, since they needed an adult. “Sally, Cassidy, and Kimber will be there,” she added.
Sara’s redirection worked like a charm for her munchkins. They both started eating again, excited to go out and play. Unfortunately, the promise of wide open grass and sunshine did little to distract Sara’s mind from picturing Austin in the shower that she’d been in just an hour before.
Not even the Taj Mahal could compete with that image.