Episode 2 - Flirting with Fire

After a year of aching silence, Rose doesn’t go searching for desire, desire finds her.

Still reeling from the weight of grief, she steps into a quiet Oslo bar on a snowy winter night. What she expects is a drink. What she finds is Ari: a young Norwegian bartender with a crooked smile, smooth hands, and eyes that sparkle like he's always on the edge of a very good joke.

What follows is not just flirtation. It’s something more dangerous. Something more alive.

This episode is where grief meets hunger. Where memory dances with lust. And where Rose begins to wonder, can desire exist beside sorrow?

• A year after Nate’s death, Rose feels the return of something she thought was gone forever: longing.
• A red lipstick. A strong drink. A glance held a little too long.
• And suddenly, her skin remembers what it means to want again.

Ari doesn’t ask for anything. But his presence, casual, magnetic, utterly grounded, pulls her toward a choice she didn’t know she’d have to make. To turn back. Or to walk away.

And now, dear listener… the choice is yours.

At the end of the episode, you’ll be asked to vote: → Does Rose follow the firelight and return to Ari for a night that may awaken her body again? → Or does she walk into the Oslo night alone, choosing solitude, self-discovery, and the quiet permission to feel?

Your vote decides the next chapter.

This is not a love story like you’ve heard before. But it is a love story. The kind that asks more questions than it answers. The kind that lives in the grey between grief and desire. The kind that invites you to choose.

🎧 Listen now and vote in the Spotify poll to shape Rose’s journey.

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Widow on Fire is a cinematic, narrative podcast blending raw emotion, sensual storytelling, and choose-your-own-path intimacy. Told by Montgomery Andrews, with Rose as our guiding voice, each episode explores the messy, beautiful tension between loss and reawakening.

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