California Wild by Zoe Normandie

I never thought I’d fall in love with Jesse Navarro again.

Not after everything we survived. And definitely not after everything we ruined.

He was the wildfire that torched every part of me. Addicted, reckless, magnetic. We destroyed each other in the most spectacular ways—and when I finally walked away, I swore I’d never look back.

But now I’m home in San Diego, standing on the edge of something bigger than myself, with everything to lose—and he’s here. Clean. Steady. Changed, he says.

Part of me wants to run. The other part wants to believe him. To believe in the late-night phone calls and the way he looks at me like I’m his whole damn world. To believe he won’t vanish when things get hard. That he won’t choose the bottle, the silence, the war in his head—over me.

But this isn’t just about me anymore.

The stakes are higher. The fall would hurt more.

And if I’m going to risk everything, I need to know he’ll catch me.

Because I can’t survive the wreckage a second time.

Not now. Not when everything depends on it.