Damn That Sexy Man

Over the next few months, Lila and the Hawthorn-Morgan family had been spending a lot of time together acclimating to each other to make sure coexisting as an integrated family for the sake of Alex's offspring. To Lila's relief, the family was kind, humble and very welcoming.

She was glad the baby would have loving grandparents around because she hadn't seen or heard from her mom in ages and her dad only checked in when he had something to complain about. At the end of each interaction with him Lila always felt drained and in desperate need of a nap. She hated to admit her father was an energy vampire- but there was no other way to describe him. It was a shame, because she would have loved to baby prep the nursery with him especially now that she knew the offspring's gender.

On this day Lila exited her car and crossed the parking lot into the large hardware store, making sure to grab a shopping cart on her way in.

She had made a list of things she would need to prep and paint the room. She had one chance at being a parent and she wanted to do everything right. Lila anxiously made her way to the paint department and parked the shopping cart across the aisle and out of the way in case other paint-seekers stopped by to fulfill a similar errand.

She sighed as she looked at the plethora of color choices that would adorn the baby's room feeling overwhelmed at the endless possibilities.

"Wow," she whispered as she looked at the colorful spread before her. Just when she thought she had seen all the color swatches, she looked at the next shelf and found another set of swatches, and on and on it went until the end of the aisle.

"You okay?"

That familiar masculine voice she hadn't heard in months sent an immediate flood of warmth throughout her body provoking an immediate ache of desire between her legs.

Slowly, she turned her head toward him.

Eric Morgan.

Instinctively her eyes met his briefly before hungrily taking in the rest of him - from his slicked back dark blonde hair to those sexy thick-rimmed glasses and down his muscular chest which was hidden behind a tight white T-shirt that couldn't conceal the definition of his abdominal muscles. Her gaze began roaming down the front of his jeans, in this case, her memory had to fill in the delectable part of his body that she couldn't currently obviously see given he wasn't in an aroused state.

The sound of Eric clearing his throat snapped her out of her lustful thoughts.

Lila turned away embarrassingly knowing she got caught. She slapped a hand on her forehead as she tried to shield him from seeing the fierce blush overtaking her face. "I'm so sorry," she whispered. "It's hard to fight my nature around you." She turned toward the swatches and grabbed handfuls at them randomly. "Wh.. what are you doing here?" she stuttered.

As she continued to randomly pick at the swatches, Eric's hand came in view of her periphery. He grabbed the growing bulk of swatches from her grasp, taking them all away from here. "Mom said you were going to paint the nursery today. She sent me to help you with the high areas," he began replacing the swatches on the display.

Lila reached for the swatches, but he pulled them away from her reach.

"I may not know anything about nursery colors, but I do know that you don't want all of these choices," he said as he handed the swatches to a passing employee. He reached into his wallet and handed the worker a crisp monetary bill. "Do you have specific colors in mind?"

Lila shrugged. "I was waiting to find out the gender first and then I wanted to look at my options," she looked down the aisle. "I never thought there would be so many choices."

Eric nodded as he crossed his arms over his chest and looked at the swatches. "Pink for girl?" he asked.

Lila exhales slowly as she looked at the pinks. She tried to imagine the nursery in each of the shades of pink that came into view; she was quick to understand how gigantic the room for error would be if she chose a generic color without thoroughly imaging what she wanted that room to look like.

"Aaargh," she ran her hands through her hair. "I don't know anymore!" she said frustratingly as she waved her hands frantically at the wall of swatches. "I knew there were different variations of the color, but this is excessive," she waved her hands angrily. She looked at him. "Why does humanity need a bajillion options in pink?"

Eric chuckled. He grabbed her by the shoulders and spun her around. He placed his lips on the back of her head. "Let's go home," he said, his warm breath felt comforting against the back of her head. "Let's sit down and look at nursery theme ideas online. Hopefully something will resonate with what you're looking for."

Lila sighed, leaning into him. She nodded. "That's a really good idea," she acknowledged. The physical connection between them really brought the dam between her legs close to flooding her panties, "but, can we please have sex first?"