Miles ignored the stinging pain across his belly and struggled down the stairs with Devin slumped over his shoulder. The man became unconscious after he’d seemed to panic the moment the fire began to spread. It was no use for Miles to try to talk to him to urge that they had to get away as fast as they could. Carrying him down was the only way he could save them both. Devin had looked physically okay when he beat up Sebastian. Miles prayed he really was all right.
Police cars and ambulances were parked in the street in front of the apartment and onlookers and passersby were crowding across the street. Paramedics helped him lay Devin down on a stretcher and put an oxygen mask over his face before they gave Miles one, too, which he refused.
“No, no. I’m all right.”
But they insisted, and
