Oliver Stoll’s life has gone up in smoke. Literally. Escaping an apartment fire, he’s made it out with little more than the clothes on his back and his best friend and downstairs neighbor, Mia. With few other options, he agrees to stay with David Elliston, Mia’s older brother. David was Oliver’s first crush, first kiss, first everything. That is, until the day they broke up five years before. It hadn’t been pretty.<br><br>David Elliston is back in town. Offered the chance to oversee the Kellmen Group’s newest magazine acquisition, he isn’t going to let a years old heartbreak stop him. But being thrown together with Oliver is harder than expected. And the flicker of hope he’s long tried to bury becomes even more difficult to contain.<br><br>Ex-lovers, best friends, and angry parents don’t make the best backdrop for rekindling a romance. But it’s the lies from the past that might just extinguish any chance they have of starting over.

Big Flames and Small

“You have a birthday dinner with your dad, remember?” David could see Mr. Stoll watching from the living room window. “And I have an English exam. I’ve got just enough time to get to campus.”


Oliver looked over and saw his father watching. “Shit.”


“I’ll see you later.” David tapped the backpack. “Wait until I’m back to open it.”


“Is it condoms?” Oliver smiled wickedly and David wanted to yank him into the backseat and swallow him whole. Instead, he gave him a quick peck on the mouth.


Yeah.” Oliver licked his lips and David wondered if he did that shit on purpose. “Okay.”


Despite his best efforts, it was close to one in the morning when David climbed through Oliver’s window.


“I thought you weren’t coming.” Oliver’s voice was a sleepy whisper. “I would have waited up.”


“Phone died.” David kicked his shoes off in the corner before climbing under the covers of Oliver’s bed, completely clothed. “Did you peek?”


Chapter 12