Stealing Forever

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>My daughter's new nanny is the curveball I never saw coming.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My whole life's been spent in stadiums-watching playing coaching. Baseball isn't just what I do it's who I am and I'm damn good at it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What I'm not good at? Raising my three-year-old daughter alone. So when a coworker tells me he knows the perfect nanny I don't hesitate hiring her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hailey Shea is everything I didn't know I needed: beautiful intelligent and incredible with my daughter.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's also eleven years younger than me and now on my payroll. My instincts tell me to keep my distance but the more time I spend with her the less control I seem to have.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our late night conversations lingering glances and secret touches have me rethinking everything I thought I knew and reevaluating what I want.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But falling in love isn't a part of the game plan this season and if I mess this up I'm not the only one whose heart will be broken.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My daughter has already watched one woman she loves walk out of her life and I don't know if either of us could survive losing another.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Is Hailey destined to be my second strike? Or is she the home run I didn't realize I was waiting for?</span></p><p></p>