I shouldn’t want her. My head knows that. My heart doesn’t seem to care.
The One I Want, an all-new single dad, age gap, small town romance from bestselling author Chelle Sloan is available now!
As a professional football player, I had a playbook for everything on the field.
Then I retired and found out there’s no playbook for life—especially when the one you thought was perfect gets flipped upside down.
There’s no play for suddenly becoming a divorced, single dad. There’s no plan for moving your family back to the town you grew up in.
And there is definitely not a play for falling in love with the nanny.
I didn’t mean to. Betsy Sullivan just has that way about her.
It started with wanting to see her smile. It grew to needing to hear her laugh.
Before I knew it, her red lips and perfect curves were all I could think about. And I started to picture a life together - A perfect life together.
Except nothing is ever perfect. Nothing is how you envision it. I learned that hard lesson once already.
And if I’m not careful, I might find myself learning it again.
I shouldn’t want her. My head knows that. My heart doesn’t seem to care.
Neither does hers.
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I reach for my phone and see a text message from Wes, which immediately puts a smile on my face. It’s only been a few days, but I’ve already come to love seeing his text messages, which he sends first thing every morning.
Wes: Do you sleep naked?
I have to blink a few times to make sure I read that text right. He normally sends “Good morning, beautiful” or something like that. Has he already dipped into the egg nog?
Betsy: Wow, didn’t realize we graduated to dirty texting.
Wes: We didn’t. Though that could be fun…
Betsy: Oh, it is. Just you wait. And Merry Christmas.
Wes: Merry Christmas, beautiful.
Now that’s better.
Wes: No, the reason I asked is because the kids wanted to come over to surprise you, as in full Mission Impossible, break into your house to surprise you. Which I was all for. Then I realized that you might sleep naked, and I’m not ready to have that conversation with Hank yet.
I laugh. They are too sweet.
Betsy: I am fully dressed and will even pretend to be asleep for the surprise.
Wes: Good. Because we’re in your driveway.
I laugh and set my phone back down. I hurry and bury myself under the covers, hoping I can pull this off. I hear their little whispers and footsteps coming down the hall, and it takes all I have not to smile.
God I love these kids. Whatever happens with us and Wes, these kids have become more important to me than I ever thought imaginable.
And now I’m even more secure in my decision to cut off my family. This is the family I want in my life. For as long as they’ll have me
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