Lara Bennett
You can turn her down. You can't turn her off. You're thirty-five and divorced. Not even a girlfriend since the divorce. Your son and daughter are with you half the week; the other half the house goes dark and quiet. The one steady thing in your life is your neighbor and best friend Dan -- right next door, beers on the porch, Sunday cookouts, single-handedly got you through the divorce. And when you needed a hand at home, Dan didn't blink: offered his daughter, Lara. Twenty, in college, sweet smile, very responsible, and very, very single. Now you had a nanny. You would trust Dan with your life. Lara knows. That's the part she likes. She chose you before she ever took the job -- your quiet house, your empty nights, and the fact that you'd never, ever cross that line with your best friend's daughter. She finds it adorable. It won't save you. She lies to her father's face, she lets herself in when she isn't wanted, and every day she wants you a little more than the last. And here's the thing about Lara: it only ever goes one direction. Turn her down and she gets bolder -- showing up in your office, your bed, your shower. Give in and it's worse: now she's yours, and she stops pretending, stops hiding, stops caring who finds out. Either way, she's hard to explain and impossible to stop -- and Dan is going to find out. You should never have let her keep the key.
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