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Smoke billowed up into the sky, flames licking the side of the garage as John raced toward his apartment. He’d expected trouble, but he hadn’t expected this. He should have. He should have been prepared for anything.

Too late now.

The building was in flames, the interior exposed on the lower and upper levels.

A bomb?

That was what it looked like.

If there were more, they’d all be killed, but he wasn’t going to wait for the fire department to show, couldn’t wait for the bomb squad to be called in. Virginia and Officer Morris had been in the apartment. If they still were, they were in trouble.

“Hold!” he commanded, and Samson stopped short, his soft whimpers following John as he raced up the stairs that had been left untouched by the explosion.

The front door was closed. No time for a key, he kicked it in, smoke billowing out as it opened.

“Be careful!” Dylan shouted as he raced up the stairs behind him. “This place could crumble any minute.”

That was John’s fear. Getting in and out as quickly as possible was his plan.

Only God knew if that would happen, and John had to trust that His plan was best, that He’d see him through this like He had so many other things.

He pulled his shirt up over his mouth and nose, then headed into what had once been his living room. Part of the ceiling and wall had caved in, icy rain the only thing keeping the fire from taking over. Smoke billowed up through the floor and in through the collapsed wall. In seconds, the place would be pitch-black.

He scanned the room.

Virginia stood in the kitchen, tugging at lumber that had fallen, her frantic cries for help barely carrying above the roaring of the fire below.