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Caffeine Drip isn't a Starbucks, but they serve the best coffee in LA. That's the recommendation Eddie gets from his coworkers and what leads him to meeting the best barista ever, Evan Buckley. Mutual attraction blooms quickly, but neither wants to ruin the best friendship they've had in years. Buck fights against parental expectation, Eddie realizes there may be a dangerous secret in the Buckley family, an orange cat judges everything Buck thinks, and Chris is the greatest wingman in history.
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“Is something wrong? Should I call the doctor back?”
Eddie shakes his head. “No, no, I think I’m good to go just…” he hesitates, knowing his next words will inevitably sting. “Who are you? No one’s told me.”
He watches the man’s face freeze, but it doesn't fall. No, his mouth goes stiff in a way that probably means he’s trying to hold back his emotions, and doing a pretty good job, all things considered. He forces his face into a friendly smile.
“I’m Buck. Buck Bu - well, Evan Buckley, but everyone calls me Buck. We met at work, like seven years ago. We’re firefighters. I’m, well, I’m your partner.”
Partner.
Oh, wow.
Eddie has never heard a better word. This man, this beautiful man, clearly kind too, by the way he paid devoted attention to Eddie’s discharge instructions and held back his sadness and fear to stay strong for Eddie – this man is his partner. They were together.
Or:
Eddie wakes up with amnesia and meets Buck, who introduces himself as Eddie’s partner. Isn’t it funny how a word can have two different meanings?
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Buck rescues a cat from a house fire.
Unfortunately, the collapsing ceiling gives him a concussion.
Even more unfortunately, the concussion gives him a British accent.
The 118 think it's hilarious.
Buck uses it to flirt with Eddie.
Nobody is having a normal time.
Or: Buck develops Foreign Accent Syndrome and accidentally falls in love with his best friend.
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- Part 33 of The Yellow Heart Collection 💛
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When a routine rescue goes catastrophically wrong, Buck and Eddie expect injuries, paperwork, and maybe a few weeks of being extra careful around unstable buildings.
They don’t expect to wake up bound together by a mysterious red string of fate.
At first, it seems like an impossible curse. The farther apart they get, the worse they feel, and no one can explain why the universe—or whatever caused this—decided that the two of them couldn’t be separated.
But the string is more than a tether.
It lets them hear each other’s thoughts. Feel each other’s emotions. See pieces of each other’s dreams. Every wall they’ve spent years building starts to crumble as they are forced to confront the one thing they’ve always been best at avoiding: the truth.
Because maybe the string didn’t create their connection.
Maybe it only revealed what was already there.
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There were no hard and fast rules when it came to soulmarks, but there were a few generally accepted principles:
1. The marks are echoes of your soulmate’s first waking thoughts, usually in their native language.
2. The marks last anywhere from a few hours to a full day, depending on the intensity of emotion.
3. They appear sporadically, not every first thought is focused enough to appear as a mark.
4. They appear on your body the moment your soulmate wakes, regardless of time zone.
5. It’s rude to examine or comment on someone else’s marks
6. Evan “Buck” Buckley doesn’t have a soulmate.
Okay, maybe that last one was known only to two people, Buck himself and his sister Maddie, and Maddie refused to agree with him on this matter. Buck maintained however, that 28 years was plenty long enough to wait for an echo of his own without finally l accepting that, clearly, he was one of those unlucky few who didn’t get a soulmate. Sure, not everyone found their person- their echo, but most people at least got marks that gave them hope that their soulmate was out there somewhere. Not Buck, though. No, Buck was obviously meant to be alone forever. Or at least between hookups.