Single Mom's Firemen: A Contemporary Reverse Harem Romance (Lucky Lady Reverse Harems) by Kai Lesy

Author:Kai Lesy [Lesy, Kai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

22

Chase

Hours pass as we work through the fire while also keeping an eye on each other’s backs.

“The idea was to get us to that part of the building,” Wyatt surmises.

We’ve practically collapsed in the back of our truck, utterly exhausted. Most of the people were safely evacuated. The death toll was around thirty the last we heard, with about three hundred injured, most from smoke inhalation. The city has been working overtime sending patients to each major hospital with a burn unit available.

It’ll be a while before they can make sense of the whole thing and figure out what happened, what started the fire in the first place.

At this point, there’s not much left for us to do. Three more fire stations sent people over to help. My brothers and I are merely resting while waiting for Holt and the other fire chiefs on scene to finish debriefing the Dallas PD. We watch in exhausted awe as the last of the flames finally die down.

The warehouse itself has been completely destroyed. It will require a controlled demolition once an investigation is completed, but the general consensus is already settled on accidental combustion, likely from faulty wiring and exacerbated by a lacking fire safety system.

“Nothing else makes sense,” Wyatt says, still thinking about the attack. “They had breathing masks and tanks, axes and crowbars, and marched right toward the building to blend in with the rest of us.”

“We were definitely the target,” I say. “But I’m still confused about how they planned it. There were a ton of firefighters here. What were they gonna do? Work side by side with fire and rescue, hoping they bumped into us?”

Eric frowns. “I’m thinking they had someone on the inside. Or they tapped into our radio line. Which can easily be done with store-bought equipment and minimal knowledge of frequencies and how they work.”

“It was risky and bold,” I reply. “They were clearly determined to kill us and—”

“Blame it on the fire,” Wyatt cuts in. “It would have looked like we died in the line of duty. I swear, man, my blood is boiling…”

“Yeah, I’m itching for a do-over,” I growl. “What about that one we took down?”

Eric gives me a hard look. “Charlie and his team are over there now, securing the crime scene,” he says. “They’ll run his prints through the system. If we’re lucky, he’ll get a hit.”

It all happened so fast, I barely registered the details. I was already going in with a fighter’s mindset but my enemy was supposed to be the flames, not other people. The minute I saw them coming, it was as if a switch was flipped in my head. I became somebody else, the version of me that I’d thought was long gone. Then again, that same version did rear his nasty head when I dealt with Colby Nash.

Almost instantly, my synapses start connecting some of the dots. I give Eric a troubled look, wondering if I should bring that name up, but I notice he’s staring somewhere else.

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