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

David had wasted too many years already.  9


Oliver woke when David bolted upright in bed.


“Shit.” David checked the time on his phone and jumped up. “Get dressed.”


“Why?” Oliver yawned, stretching before doing as David asked.


The only clothes he had with him were from the gym, so he opened one of David’s drawers and stole a pair of pajama bottoms as David hurried into jeans and a fresh shirt.


Oliver stopped, pajamas only halfway up his legs. “What?”


“Taylor. I forgot all about it. He’ll be here any second.”


“Oh. My. God.” Oliver finished yanking up the pants and slammed the drawer shut. “I’m so fucking stupid.”


“Fuck you, David.” Oliver stormed out of the room.


Why had he let himself trust this man? How could he make the same goddamned mistake twice? Twice! Of course they were still together. Of course.


Chapter 27