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“No I’ht leg that had renderedas I going to take so position at sniper school, and I’d considered it, but Naomi hadwith hters would rerown up She wanted a familiar home, she wanted fairlsand I couldn’t blame her

I’d told the Navy I was out andto ease back into civilian and fae hadn’t survived, and I was now a single dad

Truth be told, I liked it better this way

Andjob of it, although I swore too tails even to save my life

But I was here, I was trying my best, and I always put my children first—which was more than my father had done

And despite the charred ha with s when it was tio back to their mom

They often toldit—and saying it back

On one side of ht up her knees, which jabbedLuna rolled over, slapped a hand on , which meant I’d successfully kept two humans alive for one more day

I called that a victory

I woke up before my alarm went off and carefully snaked irls, which required tactics in stealth and breath control that rivaled what I’d learned in sniper training But today was going to be hectic, and I wanted just one cup of coffee in the callance at them, I silently threw on a TCFD T-shirt and traded my sweatpants for a pair of jeans

In the kitchen, I stuck a pod in theup a kitchen box while it brewed My lease wasn’t up here until the end of the week, so I didn’t have to coet as much done today as possible My sister’s husband, Justin, as also a firefighter on the sa—not that there was irls off at their house and then go get the truck Bree,them over later

While the girls were still asleep ininto big garbage bags Then I lugged thethe headboards from the frames The dresser they’d used at my apartment was already eo Their clothing for today was laid out on the dresser top

I was double checking that the closet was e into the room