Flashpoint

by Ember Cole

Under Fire · Book 5

I walked away three years ago. Took a job across the country and left the man I couldn’t ask to follow. Now I’m back in the same town. Same school. And the same man I never stopped loving just ran into a burning building to save me. Luke Bennett—Grumpy, loyal, still wearing the uniform that wrecks me. He pulled me from the fire. Collapsed from the smoke. And when I stood at his ICU bed, still in soot-stained clothes, the doctor said, “We won’t know the damage… unless he wakes up.” I told him I still loved him. Said I never stopped. And when his eyes opened, he smiled and whispered, “I’d do it a million times over.” 6. Wildfire - 149 Pages I didn’t come back to fall in love again. Especially not with the man I once promised forever. But when I walked into the firehouse training drill, And Jace Carter turned around— I forgot how to breathe. He didn’t ask why I left. Just stared at the chain around my neck. At the ring still hanging there. Still his. Now we’re working side by side. Same calls. Same heat. Same silence we never learned how to break. Until I tell him the truth— About the fear, the trauma, the day I panicked and ran. He says I wrecked him. And I tell him he wasn’t the only one who broke. Then the call comes. Warehouse collapse. Jace is inside. And this time, I don’t freeze. I pull him out. I hold his hand in the back of that ambulance and say, “You’re not allowed to leave me.” And he whispers, “Then stop leaving yourself.”

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