Hi! I'm looking for a romance novel I read on the Magfic app that was later removed due to copyright issues.
The title was something like: “In the Fire, He Chose His First Love” (author listed as Alice Olson, probably a pseudonym).
Plot:
The female lead lives with her boyfriend. During a fire in their apartment building, instead of making sure she is safe, he runs to save his childhood friend and neighbor (her name was Araceli Díaz).
After the incident, their group of friends talks about how he would always end up choosing his first love. The female lead overhears this conversation in a bar, confronts them, but her boyfriend does not defend her or stand up for her.
That moment makes her realize she was always the one putting effort into the relationship, while he was emotionally distant, and she decides to leave.
The story was short/serialized and quite expensive to unlock per chapter on the app.
The book is no longer available on Magfic (it shows a copyright removal notice).
Does anyone know if this story exists under a different title or where I could find it?
Thank you so much!