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Baker: Being a single dad was never part of the playbook, but one look at my son and everything changed.

Now football and fatherhood are my whole world—a world that gets turned upside down when my nanny quits two weeks before training camp. Sloane Peterson runs interference by stepping in to help.

She's sweet, dependable, and the one woman I shouldn't want. Not when our lives are so entwined. But every time she smiles at my son—or me—it gets harder to remember that our little arrangement is...