Chapter Six
Beck
Smoke billowed around me, the air thick with it. I glanced up in the nick of time. A beam above gave way, and I dodged to the side. Moving on instinct alone with smoke obscuring everything, I shoved through a door at the end of the hallway. The smoke was thinner in here, and I could see the elderly woman in the bed.
“Cade! She’s in here!” I called out through the window to my side.
I briefly checked the woman’s pulse and breathed a sigh of relief to find one. Without waiting, I bundled her thin body into my arms and headed back down the hall blindly. Even though I couldn’t see a damn thing, I was hot as hell inside my gear, and I’d entered this home close to when it was too late to be called safe, I was calm. As long as I was doing something, I could stay calm in the m
