Sweet Recovery (Ex Ops Series Book 4) (23 page)

Flash Point

By

Lani Lynn Vale

Copyright ©2016 Lani Lynn Vale

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Masen Crisfield fell in love with Booth Jones when she was sixteen years old. Booth was the love of her life. The rock she needed to get her through the day. Then she rips his heart out while he’s deployed, leaving him wondering just what he’d done to warrant something so severe as a breakup that neither of them wanted. 
Stubbornness is their middle name, and ten long years pass before either one of them try to breach the gap. 
Circumstances force Booth to come home, and within an hour of him being back in his home town, there she is. Right back in the forefront of his mind where he knows she shouldn’t be. 
The day he starts his first civilian job at Kilgore Fire Department, his worst fear of seeing Masen is realized. And not only does he see her, but he sees her with another man. A fellow firefighter that he has to trust with his life. 
It soon becomes apparent that they are both still just as much in love with each other now as they were the moment they met. But there’s a problem. Booth’s married, and Masen’s in a committed relationship. 
They fight the pull with everything they have, but they’re both about to learn the true meaning of flash point as their lives crash together. Their love consuming everything in it’s path. 

Excerpt:

“Each and every time I nearly died, I used to chant your name like one would a prayer. It’d give me that more drive to survive. To go home to you. To make you realize that I never blamed you. Never stopped loving you,” he said.

I waited, knowing he wasn’t finished.

When Booth spoke, you listened.

No matter what…even if all you wanted to do was bust him over the head with a shoe.

“I’ve loved you since I saw you in those short shorts with your hair flying in the wind. From the moment you ran to your car and stood on the bumper of your Jeep to put the top up, I knew you’d be mine,” he exhaled. “I know we’ve not made this easy, but if you’re willing to try, so am I. And I know we can make this work. You’re mine, and I’m yours. But I can’t deal with you seeing Bowe anymore. So you need to make a choice. Him or me.”

I wanted to laugh.

“Booth,” I laughed, reaching out to curl my hand around his neck.

He moved forward until his face was only inches away from mine.

Then I gave him the truth. I told him what was in my heart. The precious, broken and bleeding piece of flesh that’d never been the same since he’d left.