Chapter 3
When the sound of sirens could be heard even over the yells that were making his voice hoarse, he realized the authorities had arrived.
Too little, too late.
But then, Shawn was used to that. Too often in his life had the authorities been late for the party. There had been the time when the police had arrived ten minutes too late to save his sister from being r***d, and then there had been the other time when the family home had burned to dust, the fire engine pulling in when it had been too late to do any damn thing.
The many tragedies that had befallen his family were one of the major reasons he'd enlisted. The need to help people whose lives had been destroyed, to help patch their now-destroyed world back together again, had been at the forefront of his mind when he'd been
