The Rookie's Bargain
A Small-Town Secrets, Forbidden Desire Sports RomanceBy Reese Calloway
Length7h 34m
About this audiobook
Three months of academy. Two weeks at the county training center. And now a red brick station squatting in the Port Townsend fog like it grew there.
Dashiell O'Shea is the probationary firefighter, and he is carrying two things nobody at Station 6 knows about. The first is that he lied his way through the medical screening. The second buzzes in his pocket on his first morning: an oncology appointment reminder for Tobias O'Shea.
Toby is his little brother. The insurance is why Dash took this job.
Graham Lockwood is not the rookie. He is the veteran assigned as Dash's training officer, salt-and-pepper stubble, black coffee, a limp he does not explain. He looks through Dash the way you look through a window you do not plan to clean, tells him gear is in bay two, and goes back inside.
What the captain told Dash beforehand was the important part. Two years ago Graham lost a probie in a ceiling collapse. He pulled the kid out. It was too late. *"He's not friendly. But he'll keep you alive."*
The bargain the two of them strike is brutally practical, and Graham says the quiet part aloud: if Dash dies, Toby does not get his treatment, and if Graham loses another probie he does not get to keep his job or his sanity.
Then it becomes something else, and then it becomes a promise with a rule attached — no waiting for the right moment, no letting anything fester, you feel something shift and you say it out loud, immediately.
Which is the one term Dash cannot keep. Toby has skipped chemo and made his brother swear to say nothing, and every day Dash does not tell Graham is a day he is breaking the only condition that mattered.
A small-town MM firefighter romance about a man holding a secret that is not his, a mentor who has already buried one person he was supposed to bring home, and a family illness that no amount of overtime quite covers. Closed-door, with an ending built out of weekend visits, plastic chairs and a long drive taken the long way.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Ghost I Trusted
4Chapter 3 - The Smoke That Doesn’t Clear
5Chapter 4 - The Rookie I Can’t Hate
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6Chapter 5 - The Debt I Can’t Repay
7Chapter 6 - The Cracks in My Armour
8Chapter 7 - The Point of No Return
9Chapter 8 - The Lie That Binds Us
10Chapter 9 - The Dinner I Didn’t Plan
11Chapter 10 - The Rules I Break for Him
12Chapter 11 - The Secret I Cannot Share
13Chapter 12 - The Price of Listening
14Chapter 13 - The Question I Shouldn’t Ask
15Chapter 14 - The Boundaries I Draw
16Chapter 15 - The Dock at Dusk
17Chapter 16 - The Bargain Becomes a Promise
18Chapter 17 - The Cracks Begin to Show
19Chapter 18 - The Cracks I’m Not Supposed to See
20Chapter 19 - The Lie That Almost Kills
21Chapter 20 - The End of Us
22Chapter 21 - The Spiral
23Chapter 22 - The Truth I Should Have Told
24Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture
25Chapter 24 - The Cost of Choosing
26Chapter 25 - The Bargain Kept
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Reese Calloway
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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