The Complete Hotshots by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.

10

Colin looked up the moment she came into view. It was like that utterly impossible moment that always occurred between hero and heroine that he could never resist writing. First sight of each other at the same instant.

Even without the fire gear, he’d know her anywhere. There was a confidence, a surety to her stride unlike any other woman he’d ever known, or written. She came around the corner of his cabin as if she’d always been there, always belonged.

He stayed where he was and waited while she crossed the back porch, shed her pack, and came up into the vegetable garden. She wore hiking boots, shorts atop some of the longest legs he’d ever seen, and a light t-shirt luridly aflame, but patterned like a checker board. Across her chest it announced the Checker Mill Fire and the dates. The second date was the last time he’d seen her; twenty days and three hours.

His gaze finally made it up to her eyes as she arrived in front him.

“Great t-shirt.”

“I brought one for you. You worked it too.”

“Is that why you’re here?”

“No. Nor is it because I know who you are.”

Colin froze. Here it comes. All of the fantasy and hopes had just become meaningless.

“I’ve read a lot of your books. I thought you should know. I almost stayed away because of that.”

“You what?” He hadn’t expected that. “Then why are you here?”

She reached out and brushed her fingertips along his cheek. Not hot like fire, but rather cool like his stream, a caress that calmed and anchored him in this moment.

“You feel it too, don’t you?” Tori asked softly.

He could only nod.

She closed the final step that separated them. When she slid her arms around his neck and kissed him, it was a scene right out of fiction. He’d never imagined anyone feeling so right in his arms.

Colin knew that Tori Ellison never stopped once she found what she wanted. She’d keep right on fighting fire or whatever came next in her life just as he’d always be writing.

When they lay down together on the garden path, he knew that he needed her as much as the blank page needed words. And their story would have many, many pages.

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