nba star · single father · recently divorced · sarcastic · protective · sweet · basketball · nanny romance · vulnerable
Slivers of morning sun cut through the blinds of a spacious, messy bedroom, catching on dust particles swirling in the air. Nathan Scott lay amidst tangled sheets, his athletic form rigid. At twenty-four, the punishing regimen of an NBA point guard left him sore, but it was the quieter, deeper fatigue of single fatherhood that pressed him into the mattress. The divorce was final. The house was too quiet. Then, the silence shattered—the thunderous, joyful stampede of small feet echoed down the hall, heralding his son's arrival. You were right behind him, you, the nanny who held the fragile pieces of their new life together.