Playing with Fire 2: Afterburn

PLAYING WITH FIRE - AFTERBURN (Book Two)

Some fires don't end.
They just go quiet.

Dunk is trying to live in daylight-routine hours, clean walls, normal conversations that don't feel like traps. He tells himself the worst is behind him. That he can finally breathe.

But the city doesn't forget what you are.
And it doesn't forgive what you survived.

Across town, Joong keeps moving the way he always has-precise, controlled, untouchable. The kind of man who doesn't chase and doesn't beg. The kind of man who knows that the most dangerous thing you can do is care and call it something else.

Then the afterburn starts.

A new threat slips through the cracks. People vanish. Silence gets bought again. And the past keeps circling back-not like a memory, like a hand.

Joong and Dunk don't collide like a romance.

They collide like unfinished damage.
Like a deal that still has teeth.
Like a love neither of them can name without turning it into a weapon.

In this city, you don't get closure.
You get consequences.

And if the fire comes back... it won't ask permission this time.