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

“Can I tell you a story?” Oliver finally asked and David nodded.


“Is it what you’ve been secretly working on?” He smiled and grabbed Oliver’s hand. “I’d love to hear it.”


“No.” Oliver leaned into him. “It’s another story. It starts six years ago.”


And Oliver told him. He told him everything, everything he could remember anyway, from the day David had left for his new life, to the day Oliver had called his boyfriend’s house and had his heart broken, to the moment he’d seen David again for the first time and had known, even then, that the story was far from over.


Now Oliver sat in David’s room listening to the sound of the faucet. It was theirroom, at least for now, with Oliver’s things in the closet and in the drawers.


Mia and Ryan slept two doors down, and Taylor, Owen, and Jackson in what had been Oliver’s old room.


Chapter 28