I Surprised My Firefighter Husband at His Station for His Birthday – What His Captain Told Me Made My Stomach Drop

should know?”

His expression changed.

Not fear.

Guilt.

PART 3

Tyler looked down at our hands.

“The warehouse wasn’t empty.”

“I know. Reyes said you got everyone out.”

“Not everyone.”

A chill ran through me.

“There was a little girl trapped upstairs,” he said.

The floor had already become unstable. Captain Reyes had ordered everyone to evacuate.

Then Tyler heard a child crying.

“I went back.”

I stared at him.

He had disobeyed an evacuation order and gone back inside a collapsing warehouse for a child he had never met.