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

He began to move to lie on the bed, but David stopped him, instead returning him to where he’d been. And bare thighs to bare thighs was so much better.


Oliver grabbed for the lube, pouring some into his hand, and reached back to ready himself even more as David pulled a condom down over his cock and watched him.


The feel and stretch as Oliver lowered himself down onto him was better than anything he could remember.


Maybe that was because he was, and he admitted now, to himself, still half in love with David, but mostly he thought it was because it was something he’d thought he’d never feel again.


“Fuck.” Oliver closed his eyes a moment, letting out a deep breath before lifting up to lower himself again.


David grabbed his hips, both steadying him and helping him to keep a gradually building rhythm. “Like that. Just like that.”


Chapter 22