“Okay,” I agreed, my voice shaky as he ran his hand alongside my again, guiding me towards the constructing stairs.

“Hearth was electrical. Caught within the cafe. Second ground solely sustained smoke injury, which is sweet, and third flooring and above are all untouched. Everybody has been evacuated, and preparations are being made,” he stated as he coaxed me alongside, by no means eradicating his hand from my again.

“Oh, okay,” I stated, as a result of I wasn’t positive what else to say. I guessed the paramedic was proper, I used to be in shock.

“You possibly can stick with me so long as you want till issues get again to regular, okay?” he stated as I adopted him up three flights of steps and down the corridor. I nodded, tugging his jacket nearer. It smelled of fireside and spice, and I favored it. I favored it loads, as a result of it made me really feel heat and protected.

It made me really feel cherished.

However that was loopy, and I knew that. I blamed it on the shock, as a result of there was no manner in hell Dawson was in love with me. The person barely tolerated me, and had downright rejected my advances.

He’s simply doing his job.

Dawson opened the door for me, and I stepped throughout the edge into the darkness as soon as extra.

CHAPTER 24

Dawson

My coronary heart thudded away in my chest because the sound of the bathe crammed the in any other case silent air of my dwelling.

I’d fought loads of fires in my lifetime, however this one was completely different. I’d by no means been able the place I felt so powerless earlier than.

It was my job to go in and save individuals, to drag them out of burning buildings and residences, get them the assistance they wanted.

However as I ran with Nolan in my arms, it was the primary time I’d felt sincerely panicked, anxious that I might need failed.

And if one thing occurred to him, I wasn’t positive I might deal with it.

It had taken all the pieces in me to depart him with Jordan and the opposite paramedics, and concentrate on my job.

However I prayed that once I returned, he’d be okay. I needed to imagine he would, as a result of I couldn’t stand to assume in any other case.

The sight of him, alive and okay, made my rattling coronary heart really feel prefer it was going to blow up. I knew his residence can be out of fee for the following couple days till the claims and all the pieces settled, and perhaps I provided for him to remain out of a way of guilt, or perhaps I did it as a result of someplace deep down the place I didn’t wish to admit, I used to be scared. Scared that I’d virtually misplaced him.

Scared that one thing might have occurred to him and I wouldn’t have been capable of defend him. It was a bizarre tug in my chest, the thought and need to guard this bratty, infuriating, lovely man.

There was no manner I used to be letting him out of my sight.

Not tonight, not ever.

“Hey,” his voice minimize by my wandering ideas, bringing me again to the right here and now, actuality looking at me with a well-toned chest and a moderately scrumptious Adonis belt poking out of the scale too large sweatpants I’d loaned him.

Nolan’s hair was nonetheless moist from his bathe, his darkish eyes behind his glasses filled with apprehension.

“Wow,” I murmured below my breath with out warning, warmth returning to my physique to remind me I used to be alive, and Nolan was right here.

In my residence, wearing my sweats, wanting like my fantasy come to life.

“I, uh… recognize your, uh… letting me keep. I promise, I’ll determine issues out tomorrow. I simply—”

I pushed away from my counter, taking my time as I walked throughout the room, drawn to Nolan Harding like kerosene to a fireplace.

“You possibly can keep so long as you want,” I stated as I finished in entrance of him. Nolan’s gaze searched mine, for what I wasn’t positive, however I couldn’t assist myself in his presence.

Each time I acquired near the person, I discovered it laborious to withstand touching him, to withstand falling into his enchanting spell.

“Dawson, I…”

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