Heat of Desire Epilogue

Heat of Desire: The Epilogue is a free bonus story featuring a proposal made on her own terms, found family, Spanish sunshine, emotional closure, and a gorgeous glimpse of the happily ever after they fought for.

I never expected to choose Lucas de la Vega.
I expected to resign.
Resist him.
Maybe want him once or twice against my better judgement.
Fine. More than once.
But after everything we burned through, here I am — a year later, under the Marbella sun, about to ask the man who turned my world upside down a question on my own terms.
Lucas is still powerful.
Still exacting.
Still far too good at making my pulse forget basic manners.
But now he waits. He asks. He doesn't reach.
And now he's mine — because I chose him, not because I had nowhere else to go.
Winter Schulz & Co. is no longer a midnight dream in a Someday folder. It's my name on the door, and proof I can belong without disappearing.
This is not the beginning of our story.
And it's not the end.
It's the year after the fire — when the launch holds, his family folds me in, and I finally set the bag down for good.