Friendly Fire: An accidentally married friends to lovers small town firefighter romance

Ellie's been my best friend since forever. Sunday dinners, late-night talks, the kind of easy that doesn't need words.

I never let myself want more. Didn't dare risk what we had.

Then her grandpa lands in the hospital with a dying wish, and we do something completely reckless: a fake wedding. Sign the license, intercept it before it's official, walk away clean.

That kiss to seal it? Not part of the plan. Not fake, either. Not even close. It burns through me — hungry, deep, the kind of heat tha...