It Started with a Crush by Piper James

I don’t date my students’ fathers. I don’t date my students’ fathers. I don’t date…

Sage:
I’ve loved teaching at Red River Elementary for the last six years, and I’ve had my fair share of single dads ask me out. But even though there’s technically no rule against it, I’ve always declined. Things like that could get messy, especially in a small town where everyone knew everyone else’s business.
Enter Chase Perry—a single dad who was not only my best friend’s brother-in-law, but father to my newest student. He was everything I found attractive in another human being—funny, kind, generous, an amazing father, and smoking hot.
I found myself crushing, hard, but there was nothing I could do about it. Because if I let myself go there and people found out, it could ruin my reputation and call my ethics into question.
It just wasn’t worth it…was it?

Chase:
I couldn’t believe it when I got called in for a parent-teacher conference less than a week after my third grader started at his new school. Apparently, he had a crush on a classmate, and things got ugly when he tried to show her how he felt.
But he wasn’t the only one with a crush. I wanted Sage Barlow the moment I laid eyes on her. She was convinced any relationship between us would cause problems for her and Daniel. But I refused to give up.
I could persuade her to date me in secret. What the good folks of Red River didn’t know couldn’t hurt them. Or us. Right?