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After learning the truth about why he was born, Buck makes the most deliberate choice of his life: he applies to Asterbridge House, a private matchmaking service he’s been saving for since he was eighteen, because more than anything, he wants a spouse, children, and a home that lasts.
He does not expect to be matched with Tommy Kinard.
Tommy is older, steadier, richer, and far better at seeing through Buck than Buck is ready for. He listens carefully, kisses gently, and makes room for Buck exactly as he is, which would be easier to enjoy if Buck’s family didn’t think he was making a mistake. It would be easier still if Maddie wasn’t trying to fix his life for him, or if wanting something for himself didn’t feel so much like betraying everyone else’s expectations.
Somewhere between first dates, family betrayals, crossed lines, and one very bad fire, Buck has to figure out whether he can stop asking permission to want the life he actually wants — and whether Tommy might be a place to land.
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09 Jun 2026
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Nonna Knows Best by callmebrycelee (DonovanKinard85), DonovanKinard85
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
10 May 2026
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Tommy is used to being the one who shows up when things go wrong. He’s less prepared for what happens when life forces him to stay.
Six months is a long time to put everything on hold—long enough for old ghosts to resurface, for buried feelings to demand attention, and for someone he never quite moved on from to step back into his life.
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11 May 2026
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Zayn has been working the same alley for three years. It’s simple, it pays, and it usually ends the same way every time.
One day Liam shows up, some rich first timer who has no idea what he's actually doing.For some reason, he keeps coming back. Every Friday.
Same car. Same quiet conversations. Usually food.Zayn keeps telling himself it’s just a client.
It would be a lot easier if it actually stayed that way.Bookmarked by KXB
25 Mar 2026
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Tommy stared down at the picture and didn’t move an inch as he tried to process what he was seeing.
It was of Evan, his pale skin glistening with sweat as he smiled, holding the door open for someone outside of his apartment building.
Mason put down another picture and then another, making the cold shock in Tommy’s veins turn brittle with each one being presented to him. It was obvious from the photographs that Evan hadn’t known his picture was being taken. It had to have been captured with a long lens of some kind. Evan, at his apartment building. Evan, by his Jeep outside of the grocery store. Evan, in his uniform, taking out the trash at the back of the firehouse, alone and surrounded by shadows.
“I really wished you’d said yes, man.” Mason leaned back and tipped the picture up to stare at him. “Cute kid. Got that birthmark thing? He’s a firefighter too? Calls himself Buck, right? Let’s take this somewhere else, huh? You can tell me all about him.”
An old army buddy of Tommy’s comes into town with a proposition. When Tommy refuses, he learns that Evan Buckley is a pretty good tool for persuasion.
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13 Feb 2026
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Mickey likes his life. He likes his flower shop, working with his hands, the people around him, and most of the time, even the fucking hipsters who stumble into his store.
What he absolutely don't like is that unbelievably rude, disrespectful, insanely hot firefighter asshole with no manners and no spine. The prick who moved in next door and is literally robbing him his sleep and driving him up the fucking wall.
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15 Jan 2026