“Do you know what you did tonight?” he asked, tightening his hold on me. “You saved four children.” “No.” I clenched my eyes shut and buried my face in his neck. “Don’t say it like that—” “They would have burned to death inside that house if you hadn’t been the crazy, reckless, brilliant man you are,” he continued. “They wouldn’t have had a chance in hell of getting out of there, son. Sean was doused in alcohol. You saved them all, Johnny. They were in their beds, son. They were terrified of him. There was no way those kids would have left their rooms if you hadn’t gone in there to get them.”
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