The Player and the Single Mom

When friends-with-benefits turns into friends-with-a-baby-on-the-way…

It's supposed to be just a no-strings attached fling with big, brooding, football player Cash Young. He is going to whisk me away for a week in the sunshine while my three kids spend time with their grandparents.

No one screaming, "Mom!" No tears. No absurd homework assignments or problems at the struggling bakery I own, Sugar Lips.

Nothing but cocktails and sexy fun for days with a man I'll never fall in love with.

It's not that Cash isn't a great guy, because he totally is. But he's way too young for me, and way too country boy calm, with that slow drawl, and his insistence on calling me "ma'am." He thinks it's respectful, which it's not. It's infuriating. And while we're friends, we'll never be anything more than that, with a little hot, headboard-banging sex on the side.

Until two pink lines change everything and Cash wants me to go from single mom to Mrs. Sera Young.

But the biggest surprise of all may be that the unexpected idea has a certain, sexy ring to it…