The Absolute Sanctuary of a Blazing Hero

The world had gone mad. I, someone who should have been navigating the boring arithmetic of daily life on an ordinary street, had suddenly stepped into a vortex of superpowers and monsters. And my partner, of all people, was that most explosive hero with the hottest temper and the highest combat power — Cole Ransom. He looked at me like I was a piece of gum stuck to the sole of his shoe. Our mission unfolded amid explosions and ruins, the shadow of death closing in relentlessly. I fought desperately to prove I wasn’t a burden, only to glimpse in the hail of bullets a nerve pulled taut beneath his rough exterior — a nerve called loyalty. Between us, aside from the roaring at each other, there seemed to be another, far more dangerous bond, silently taking root in the rubble.