Fourteen years later, cancer took her. She’s gone.
I’m helping raise their kids.
One late-night sext changes everything.
And everything I’ve been hiding comes spilling out.
Now the fire captain who saved half this town wants me.
But loving him means crossing a line we swore we never would.
Everyone will think I was waiting for her to die.
I never was, but some loves don’t fade
—they wait for the moment you finally stop resisting.
