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Chapter 1

After fighting a brush fire at the base of Cedar Ridge for ten straight hours, Aidan Kincaid had only three things on his one, he’d gladly take theet them

Not in the cards

He and the rest of his fire crew had finally et back to the station They’d been there just long enough to load their plates when the alarain

“What the hell!”

“Gonna break the damn bell and shove it up someone’s—”

“This is bullshit …”

Whoever said no one could outswear a sailor had never lived in a firehouse Ignoring the gru around hiaze

“Gotta be a fullout the crazy,” Mitch said

“Maybe the crazy just follows you,” Aidan suggested

In turn, Mitch suggested Aidan was nuer

They’d been playing this garade, when Mitch had stolen Aidan’s lunch and Aidan had popped him in the nose for it As punishment they’d had to pick up and haul trash for the janitor for teeks

The two of the as wild and crazy as possible

Eventually they’d grown up and found responsibility, going through the fire acadehters for their bread and butter, volunteering on the local search-and-rescue teae they were needed a lot Lost hikers, overzealous hunters, clueless novice rafters—you name it, they’d been called to save it

Tonight’s fire call came in as a possible suicide juhest building in town

As they pulled up, they could see a woman had clie that couldn’t have beenbut her bra and panties

“Well, at least Nicky left her Victoria’s Secrets on this time,” Mitch noted

Nicky was a bit of a regular

And Mitch was right The last ti the town’s council at it on his desk with his assistant She’d stripped all the way down to her birthday suit before covering herself in Post-it notes Aidan wondered what had set her off this time