Kiss Me Through the Aftermath
The club was called Aftermath-and now it's a crime scene, still steaming under floodlights.
Eden Marlowe arrives in heels sharp as a warning, carrying a statement meant to soothe the city and protect her family's empire. Eden is Halcyon Development's polished fixer, the woman who turns disasters into press-friendly soundbites. But the smell of char and melted plastic doesn't care about money, and neither do the families behind the barricades.
Someone lit the match, and Eden's signature could become the lie that buries the truth.
Fire Marshal Luca Reyes has spent his career reading ashes like confession. The night Aftermath burned, he lost more than sleep-he lost faith in the system that lets the powerful walk away clean. When he sees Eden at the perimeter, composed and immaculate, he decides she's either complicit-or the next casualty of a cover-up.
Their first collision is pure friction: her controlled elegance against his relentless certainty. But as Luca pulls Eden closer to the evidence, the fire's origin points to a design-one that reaches into city hall, corporate boardrooms, and Eden's own guarded past. The more they uncover, the harder it becomes to tell where betrayal ends and desire begins.
Because Luca doesn't just want answers. He wants Eden to stop hiding behind armor and let him touch the truth-hot, frightening, and achingly intimate.
And Eden doesn't just want absolution. She wants the one man who refuses to believe her-to kiss her anyway.
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