The Flirt — Layla Hagen

Being a single dad while managing one of the biggest businesses in New Orleans keeps me very busy. Any free time I have I spend with my daughter, Bella — reading to her, styling her hair, or choosing nail polishes appropriate for an eight-year-old. But I'm okay with that because she is my whole world.After my divorce, I made myself a promise: I wouldn't date until Bella was older. Then all my good intentions go up in smoke when I hire our newest chef for theflagship restaurant in the French Quarter. Scarlett Jones is unlike any woman I'd ever met. She's smart and beautiful and I can't get enough of her.  For more reasons than one, I need to keep my distance. So when I begin flirting… surprising her with beignets and coffee at break time, then king cakeafter hours, I know I've gone too far. And when I join Scarlett on a ridiculous haunted tour of the city, I'm certain I've lost my mind.  She's become my addiction. I want to explore those curves, find out her deepest desires—and make them come true.  But it's when she offers to teach my daughter how to bake, I know I'm in wayyyyy over my head. When the three of us are together, I get a glimpse of the family wecould be.The question is, are we both ready to put our fears behind us?  And to think, it all started with a little flirt.