Chapter Twenty-Nine
Levi
The sound of the helicopter blades whacking through the air had me glancing pointlessly toward the sky. Though I knew there was a helicopter flying above, I couldn’t see a damn thing. The smoke was thick in the sky where we were, the wind gusting the smoke from the fire only a few miles away.
My crew was here with Cade’s. This fire had ballooned out of control with the wind whipping it wildly. The interior of Alaska was mostly hundreds of miles of wilderness. Nothing but trees, better known as fuel when you’re a hotshot firefighter.
It had been a full week since we’d flown up here, and I was exhausted, along with my entire crew. I heard my name and turned back to see Jesse approaching. It was hard to know what time of day it was. Even though it was late summer,
