“There’s nothing to go back to.”

Her voice trembled, but her gaze didn’t waver. The words hung between them like a dare, soft but irreversible. Cole’s jaw flexed, the muscle ticking as if he were fighting every reason not to close the distance again.

Then he stopped fighting.

He kissed her — harder this time. The kind of kiss that burned. That rewrote every memory she’d tried to bury. Suzy’s back hit the wall, his hands framing her face as his lips claimed her like he’d ...