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“You have a job? Don’t dream of being a nanny?” His shoulders sagged.
“Idohave a job, but I hate it. Never thought I’d be a nanny, but I do love kids and wish I’d gone into a career with children.”
“Say you’ll do it. Be Jack’s nanny.” He tossed four frozen pizzas into the cart and tucked the list into his pocket. “Please.”
My heart did its best to claw its way up my throat, but I swallowed against the panic. “Um, could we meet somewhere other than the grocery store, maybe when you and Jack aren’t so frazzled, to talk specifics?”
“Specifics? Oh, yeah, sure. Like hours, pay, that type of thing. Definitely. Are you available tomorrow?”
I blinked.
And blinked again.
Was I really even considering this?
“Um, yeah. I’m off tomorrow.”
“See? Perfect. It’s like it’s fate or something.” He pulled a card from his pocket, grimacing when a wrinkled tissue came with it. “Sorry. Here’s my number and address. Only slightly snotty.”
I took the card and studied it.
Hayden Thomas.
“Nap time is at ten in the morning and two in the afternoon—although, that morning nap seems to be slowly going away, a fact I’m in deep mourning about.”
“I’ll be there at two,” I answered a lot more confidently than I felt.
Somehow, I ended up carrying a sleeping Jack to the front of the store while Hayden pushed his own cart and pulled mine. Once he’d checked out, I handed the baby over with a quiet goodbye and promised to see him tomorrow.
Then I checked out and made my way to my shitty hole-in-the-wall apartment.
The notice hanging on my door to cheerfully let me know rent was going up three hundred a month was enough to bring me to tears and wonder if maybe the offer of a nanny job from a gorgeous man in the cold-goods aisle was just the change I needed.
* * *
I was crazy.
That was the only explanation.
No one in their right mind would actually even consider taking a job with a frazzled single father who blurted the offer out in the freezer section.
Right?
I should have just called and let him know it wasn’t going to work out.
But I kept seeing Jack’s sweet little face.
And Hayden’s hopeful one.
I didn’t know what was worse.
Considering quitting my job to nanny for an adorable baby—and, I wasn’t going to lie, I’d felt some weird connection to that kid from the moment I laid eyes on him—or truly thinking about taking the job in part because Hayden was so damn hot.
It was completely wrong to even think about accepting employment because the boss was fucking gorgeous.
If I was working for him, I definitely couldn’t be fucking him.
I snorted a laugh as I demolished another piece of chicken from my chicken fried rice. Would it be in poor taste to call Hayden, let him know I wasn’t available for the nanny job, but offer what I was sure would be a hot-as-sin romp between the sheets?
