Bronx by Tess Oliver

They’d called it betrayal.
He was gone, and he hadn’t deserved her yet I was labeled a traitor.
I had loved her long before I should have but this thing between us was fragile.
She was everything that was right in my world—but maybe we just weren’t meant to be.

Jack ‘Bronx’ Devlin is the toughest of the tough. He grew up breaking colts and parachutes into wildfires as a smokejumper for a living, but Layla Rafferty, the elusive woman he loves but can’t have, might be the one to finally break him.