Through games of checkers and accidental run-ins around Charleston, these two fall together in a soft and cozy love story about allowing yourself to let go and lean on the people you call family.
Hanna Smith loves her job almost as much as she loves her monthly crochet subscription and her less-than-traditional family structure. While she prefers to keep things professional, she can hardly help but notice the way her glasses fog up when the closed-off yet impossibly sexy fireman first takes a seat on her couch.
After suffering the loss of one of his company members, Miles Adler is sent to union-appointed grief counseling. While he refuses to admit it, the impact of losing one of his own continues to haunt him even months later. When he meets Hanna, who also happens to be his therapist, the lingering shame of guilt of not being able to save his friend starts to become a little more bearable.
As Long As You’ll Have Me is a soft and sweet firefighter romance story between the somewhat grumpy fireman and his therapist (who he never wanted to go to in the first place, thank you very much).
Steel gray eyes that see straight through to your soul and a pair of silver-framed glasses that she adjusts when she’s nervous, Hanna Smith stole my heart as she sat across from me in her tiny office. And with every picture of her newest crochet project and the way she calls me ‘fireman’, I don’t think I ever want it back.
What started out as a way to stay on the force has become something deeper. Something more important than anything I’ve ever done in my entire life. And as long as she’ll have me, I’ll do what I have to in order to be the man she deserves to have.
It should have been me.
The words haunt me as I try to move on from the loss of one of my men but no matter how hard I try to outrun them, they always catch up to me. Being a firefighter is a work of heart and the men and women of Firehouse Nine are like my family. Hell, one of them is family seeing as how my foster brother and I work in the same firehouse. But losing one of your own alters you in a way you never understand until it happens.
Being sent to the union shrink was less than ideal. But when it was either go and talk about my feelings or be benched indefinitely, I swallowed my pride and went to the appointment. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting but falling hard and fast for the woman who’s supposed to ask me about my feelings wasn’t it.
Chapter 10 (mild), Chapter 29, Chapter 32, Chapter 36, Chapter 41
Active scenes on page of fires and car accidents, death, loss, and grief (and PTSD due to this), mentions of parental abandonment, on-page therapy sessions, explicit on page sex scenes + vulgar language