Brooding Firefighter
(2026)(The third book in the Copper Creek Firehouse series)
A Story by Lexi Rose
Ryder
She was supposed to put my horse down and go home.
Instead the new vet rolls up her sleeves and tells me we're staying. All night.
The two of us, one sick old animal, and a barn that suddenly feels too small for whatever this is.
Nadia.
She's young, curvy, calm as still water, and far too good at seeing the things I keep buried.
I give her cold. She gives me steady. I get called out to a warehouse fire at midnight and spend the whole burn thinking about the woman walking my horse in the dark.
I get home at first light braced for the worst and find Bo standing in the field.
She did that.
She sat up all night for an animal that isn't hers, for a man who gave her nothing but his back.
Fifteen years, the only soul I ever told the truth to had four legs.
Now there's her.
A man can only hold out so long. She's not leaving here thinking she's nothing to me.
She's mine.
One long night. One old horse. And a brooding man with nowhere left to hide.
Brooding Firefighter is a short, sweet, and steamy small-town instalove romance with a happy-ever-after. It can be read as a standalone or together with the rest of the books in the Copper Creek Firehouse series.
She was supposed to put my horse down and go home.
Instead the new vet rolls up her sleeves and tells me we're staying. All night.
The two of us, one sick old animal, and a barn that suddenly feels too small for whatever this is.
Nadia.
She's young, curvy, calm as still water, and far too good at seeing the things I keep buried.
I give her cold. She gives me steady. I get called out to a warehouse fire at midnight and spend the whole burn thinking about the woman walking my horse in the dark.
I get home at first light braced for the worst and find Bo standing in the field.
She did that.
She sat up all night for an animal that isn't hers, for a man who gave her nothing but his back.
Fifteen years, the only soul I ever told the truth to had four legs.
Now there's her.
A man can only hold out so long. She's not leaving here thinking she's nothing to me.
She's mine.
One long night. One old horse. And a brooding man with nowhere left to hide.
Brooding Firefighter is a short, sweet, and steamy small-town instalove romance with a happy-ever-after. It can be read as a standalone or together with the rest of the books in the Copper Creek Firehouse series.
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