I know I wasn’t hallucinating when he let her leave bleeding. He takes a deep breath and looks away from my face picking up the rag again. “I’m...not gonna hold her here and wipe her face when this was her fucking fault in the first place,” he says, and my eyes find his chest again. Though he’s cleaning my wounded face, and with everything that’s happened, there’s still room in me to want him apparently. I sigh feeling angry and look at the ceiling. “Was it?” I ask, unable to hold the words. I’d met him when I first joined the department and he had helped me get used to the routine of the firehouse. He had been married but on the rocks when I first met him. I later was his best man for his second marriage, and he was mine for my wedding. We headed into the four story burn as search and rescue. This building was known illegal housing for mainly bums and street orphans. Thing is for us, lives are lives. We don’t care who you are, rich or poor, we come for you. And we will get you. Keeps the wolves from the door." This is my girlfriend Laura and her daughter Danielle, big wedding tomorrow,hair and nails." It'll be a pleasure." I'll be back in a couple of hours." I said heading for the door.***Trevor led the girls out in to the salon. "Natalie, Leanne, would you wash thesegirls hair, please." They were led over to the sinks, seated and caped, andtheir heads gently pulled backwards over the sinks. Natalie took the hose andgently started to wet Danielle's hair, then. If I could bring my projects, all dealing with paper-work of different sorts, to her apartment in the evening, she could give me some of her free time. Wow, talk about your devoted teachers. There still are a lot of them in the USA. So, I started coming over to Mrs. Gudenov's apartment on Fridays, when she had plenty of free time. That way we both could finish our individual work over the week-end. The first time I stopped at her apartment she was dressed in sweats. She had just worked out, and.