I do remember how she’d looked at me as I left with the crib filled with baby stuff. She’d mouthedI love you.My eyes water and I rub them with a fist. Damn it all. I can’t do this. I can’t go on without her.
Grayson curses, his whole body coiled. I’ve never seen my boss so emotional.
He calms when a plain-clothes detective flashes a badge. With a grim face, the cop holds forth a chain and padlock. “The front and back doors had these on them. I’m going to need to talk to each of you.”
Andy, always the lawyer, glares at us. “Don’t say a word without me present.”
Bloody hell. In addition to losing our wives, now, we’re suspects.
My whole world lost, I glance one last time at the rubble. Suddenly, a small bit of hope lights my dark despair. I jump off the back of the truck, rush to the front of the building, and point to the collapsed mess to the right. “The last time I saw them, Suds said he was taking them downstairs.”
“Hey! Over here!”
A fireman with a dog rushes over.
“Check out that building.”
Time stands still as we hold our breaths, praying and watching. Suddenly, the animal barks excitedly and wags his tail.
“We got something.” The fireman waves over more men.
We help them push a microphone into the wreckage and for over an hour, I pray like I have never prayed before pacing behind the yellow tape they insist I stand behind.
“I hear them.” A fireman grins. “They’re all alive!”
