<p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">The first rule of dating as a single mother should be: Don't date your son's teacher.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">The second rule should be: Don't let your past hold you back from your future.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">But when the gorgeous, much-too-young-for-me single dad moved to town, I found it impossible to avoid his advances. Especially when my sister and her husband gave him an open invitation to our weekly family dinners.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I knew better than to let anything happen between us. I didn't want to get close to him and his daughter, only for him to possibly walk away. Just like my kids' father had done to them.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Letting Dominic into our lives was never the plan. I needed to be strong, to resist the temptation and keep everyone's hearts intact.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">The only problem was that I wasn't strong enough to fight our chemistry when the pull was so powerful.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Everyone has weaknesses.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">And Dominic? Well, he just happened to be mine.</span></p>