We were a family here at the firehouse, but some things were off-limits. Jace had opened up to me that the last few times that he’d come home from the firehouse, the babysitter was there, and she’d told him that Karla never came home and she’d spent the night with the kids. He was done trying to fix his wife. They’d only gotten married because she’d gotten pregnant, and the dude was a stand-up guy. But Karla was a train wreck. In all the years I’d known her, the only times I’d ever seen her sober were during her two pregnancies. But the minute she handed those little angels to Jace, she was
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