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

The phone on his desk rang, and he straightened his collar before heading to grab it.


“Hello.” He dropped into his chair, spinning to look out the window, the smile evident in his voice.


“You haven’t been answering your cell.” It was Taylor.


“Nope.” David spun back to the desk. “It was my weekend.” The best weekend in a very long time.


“Dare I ask?” Taylor let out a huff of a breath. “No, no. Don’t tell me. “


“You’re just trying to make me jealous.” Someone started speaking to him on the other end, and Taylor took a moment to give a muffled reply before coming back to David. “I’ve got a meeting. But I’m flying in tomorrow night.”


“Hope you’re up for a little company.”


“I’ve gotta run. The flight’s not in until late, so don’t bother to send a car.”


“Are you coming alone?” David asked before Taylor could disconnect.


Chapter 23