He didn’t want to hurt someone.
The unsuspecting people out on the road weren’t at fault for his frustrations or the shit that might be falling on his head.
He sat there, turned on his radio, and listened to a couple of songs while he breathed in and out to relax. When he could feel his hands holding the wheel and the shakes in his arm muscles subsiding, he lowered his chin to his chest and let out a long, relaxing breath.
“Okay.” He lifted his head and looked out of the windshield. The parking lot was void of moving cars, so he put the car in drive and started toward the exit.
He could only think of one place to go, and one person to see.
So he headed that way, wondering if she might be at the firehouse.
If not, he might just wait around.
The idea of going back to his apartment and sitting there alone held no interest for him.
ELEVEN
HARMONY
When Vega drovethe ambulance into the covered apparatus floor after a harrowing call, she was exhausted and didn’t even want to get out of the cab.
She had more than half of a mind to just put her feet up on the dash and close her eyes.
She heard the gearshift sink into Park and she sighed. “Just leave me in here, ‘kay?”
The driver’s door opened and she waited for the chassis to rock as Vega got out of the ambulance, but that shift didn’t happen.
“Uh, Harmony?”
“Hmmm?” She picked up her jacket from the floor near her feet and pulled it up and over her to the chin to keep warm.
“I think you’re going to want to get out.”
She raised a brow at his words but didn’t open her eyes. “Why?”
“Uh… because you’ve got a visitor.”
Visitor?
Frowning at his words, Harmony sat up a little and lowered her jacket so she could sit up a little more.
Right around the time that her mind kicked in and started to work again, she caught sight of the man who was walking across the floor in her direction.
Crois.
A quick click of her brain cells told her that he was done with his shift.
Why he’d come to see her, she didn’t know, but seeing the look on his face, she quickly released her seatbelt and slipped out of the cab.
He was faster than she was and was on her side of the ambulance when her feet touched ground.
“Hey,” she spoke softly to him, “are you-”
He wrapped his arms around her and lifted her off of her feet.
Harmony wrapped her arms around his neck and tried to bring him in ask close as she could.
He hadn’t said a word, and she didn’t expect him to.
