“b***h!” he roared. Alex reached for the man, ready to tear his throat out, but then Sam was there, pulling him back and there was another scuffle, but this time it was Sam holding Alex back while Luke Norell screamed and laughed and yelled, drunken madness taking him. The three of them left the room and locked it from the outside. Luke Norell wasn’t going anywhere.
“I’ll go call the cops,” Sam said with a smile. “They won’t like this.”
“It’s their job – if they can do it,” Alex joked back. There was a running joke between the cops and firefighters that neither could do their job. The second Sam left the two of them, though, the joking was over and the mood had turned somber once again.
He looked at Carrie, who for all intents and purposes, actually didn’t look that worried. He t
