Combustion

by Ember Cole

Under Fire · Book 2

I was packing to leave town for good— No job. No money. No reason to stay. Then Jack Rylan knocked on my door, soot-streaked and holding a baby. His voice broke when he said, “Please don’t make me do this alone.” Now I’m living in his house. Helping raise a baby that isn’t mine. Sleeping across the hall from the man who once shattered me. We said it was just for now. Just until she was okay. But somewhere between midnight feedings and stormy silences, he touched my hand… and I forgot how to let go. Then I got a job offer. Better pay. Safer housing. He didn’t ask me to stay. So I started packing. And when I showed up at the fireline with his niece in my arms, I told him the truth— I didn’t come to say goodbye. I came to say I’m home.

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