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Adam looked up into the pale blue eyes of the mother of all those children.

“Thank you,” she murmured, her voice clear despite all the confusion around them.

“No problem,” he ground out between more coughing.

“Do you always do that?” Carly asked.

“Do what?”

She crouched beside his stretcher. “Deflect a compliment. I was thanking you for saving my son from the fire. And Molly. What you did was extraordinarily brave. I don’t know how I can ever repay you.”

He gave her a tiny salute and muttered, “All in the line of work,” then lay back down. Molly the dog was lying on the stretcher beside his, apparently playing dead except that her tail was wagging.

Adam closed his eyes.