Safe with Him: An age gap fake engagement romance

How did I go from being dragged out of a burning building… to living in Cal Ashford’s house… to being fake-engaged to the man I’ve wanted since I was nineteen?

Cal is trouble wrapped in turnout gear.
My best friend’s older brother.
A grumpy firefighter twice my age with carved forearms and a voice that hits me low and hot.

He rescues me, gives me his guest room, and suddenly I’m falling asleep to the sound of his deep voice down the hall.
His body brushing mine in the kitchen like fate keeps shoving us together.

Then the town assumes we’re a couple…and he doesn’t correct them.
One reckless rumor becomes a fake engagement.

Now his hand rests low on my back in public.
His breath grazes my neck.
And every time our eyes meet, heat curls tight under my skin.

Somewhere between the pretend touches and tension-thick nights, I fall for him.

But the fire that destroyed my apartment wasn’t an accident—
and the truth might cost him everything.