Ablaze

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nine years . . . That's how long I've secretly loved my brother's best friend. A man who fights fires for a living but sets me ablaze with nothing but a cocky grin.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dean Meyer has made it clear that we're just friends-<em>best friends</em>. So when we get stranded in an epic snowstorm sharing one bed in a roadside motel what could go wrong?</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everything.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We may have blurred the lines over the past nine years but we'd never crossed them. Not the way we did that night.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He promised nothing would change. That he'd forget every kiss and every touch every whimper and every moan. He promised we'd walk out the door and go back to the way things were.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He promised . . . but he lied.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now a year of missed calls and unanswered texts later we find ourselves forced back together again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will the fire still burn between us or did that one night's blaze leave us with nothing but ashes?</span></p>