He knew she was his teacher – but that didn’t mean he couldn’t find her attractive, right? And her smile was like a light in the darkness. Everything else around him was so absolutely tough, but when she smiled – he forgot all about that, if only until she started diving into her lesson plans.
Of course, he’d had to make a complete fool in front of the rest of the class, and most importantly – Brooke herself. He’d dropped the books and since then, Smith hadn’t let him live it down.
In the weeks past, things hadn’t changed much. They were running training exercises; climbing up ropes and walls, crawling under barbed wire. It reminded him of some sort of military boot camp, except that he was going to be a firefighter. But not just any firefighter.
Another man had dropped out a few d
