Gunnar's Guardian by Pandora Pine

Author:Pandora Pine [Pine, Pandora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

18

Gunnar

A week later, everything was back to normal. Firehouse Three was healthy again and no one held any ill will against me. I think the fact that one of them gave me this bug made them all see me in a different light.

Thankfully, I’d gotten over the harsher symptoms in two days. I still felt like a wet dishrag but got my raggedy ass out of bed to go to work. I can’t say it was all fun and games, but I got the job done.

Not that I was thinking about the outbreak or who gave it to me now. Today would be the day my dream to go on a ride along with the firehouse would come true. If someone’s house caught on fire, that was. Shit, saying it like that made me sound like an asshole.

Ozzy had pulled me into this office when I’d gotten to the station and let me know the chief had granted his request to let me come along on a call. Of course, in order for that to happen, there needed to be a fire or an accident that required an attending engine. I also had to sign an ass load of paperwork stating I wouldn’t sue the department or the city of Gloucester if anything happened to me. There were also equipment waivers to sign too, saying I wouldn’t use any of it.

I practically danced out of Ozzy’s office. A month ago, I never would have given a thought to going out on a call with any branch of emergency services. To tell the truth, before I met Kennedy, I’d never really given much of a thought to the men and women who kept me safe.

It was pretty humbling, to think that someone like Ozzy had been there for me without me ever having to return the favor. How did people become that selfless? In my entire life, I don’t think I’ve ever done anything for the good of someone else, unless there was something in it for me.

So far as I could tell, what was in it for Ozzy, Hal, Chasten, or any of the others never crossed their minds. For that matter neither did their own personal safety.

When I set my house on fire a few weeks back, I’d been terrified. Literally scared shitless. I remember freezing when I saw the flames shooting up from the frying pan. In that moment, I didn’t know what to do or how to save myself or my home. Finally, some kind of lizard-brain instinct kicked in and I ran outside.

My first instinct had been to run out of the burning building. How on earth did running into a burning building become Ozzy’s first instinct? Was it something David and Mandy taught him? Or was it part of his DNA like his dark hair and eyes?

Maybe when this was over, I’d ask him. The same for Kennedy. I mean, hell, that man could have bullets flying at his head at any moment, just like that day with Ella.

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