Chapter 16

Malia

I sniffled and wiped the last tear from my eyes as June dragged me away from Danny and pulled me closer to the apparatus bay where I would soon find the officer from the building fire from not too long ago. I wasn't done talking to Danny, we didn't even have the chance to shake on it and seal the deal that would end whatever this was with him and protect Mariah. I had shed a tear or two unexpectedly yet again in a place that wasn't the right place or time. First, it was at the hospital after Tasha and I had dropped off the victim with a bunch of gunshot wounds when I was still at Firehouse 12 and now here at work in front of Danny of all people. I wasn’t expecting it but when he started talking about protecting and not wanting to hurt Mariah and not be the cause of our friendship if it ended, as how it should be, He put his sister before his own needs and that’s something a lot of people can’t or refuse to do. Listening to him made me think of my own little sibling Sebastian.

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