By Zephyria 
“We have to teach that bastard a lesson this time!”
DeAndre shouted.
“Right, let’s tie him up and drag him along.”
“And let’s not forget to beat him with a club!”
“If Station Chief tries to stop me again, I’m going to take him down too this time!”
“I won’t stand for it either!”
The gathered guys had raised their anger gauges to the max. Watching them get so excited and jump around as if they were going to catch Grayson Miller right now and hang him by the neck, Dane kept his mouth shut until then. He had no intention of getting caught up in this kind of atmosphere and causing an accident, and he knew he’d only ruin his mood if he stood out and heard things like, ‘You’re worse than Miller.’ He was just thinking they’d stop soon and was about to start his lat pulldown exercise again when it happened.
Wee-ooh! Wee-ooh!
The guys who had been clamoring at the loud siren sound flinched at the same time. The hesitant time was less than a second. Like springs, they immediately jumped out. Dane also put down the equipment and ran out at full speed. As soon as they all put on their fire suits and ran out, Wilkins opened the passenger seat door of the fire truck and shouted.
“Get in quick! Hurry! Get in quick, quick!”
Wilkins waved his arms wildly, urging his team members. Ezra, who was about to get into the car, stopped, hearing the Team leader’s shouting, as if he was burning inside. The colleagues who were standing behind him to get in also stopped, and he seemed flustered and quickly looked to one side and shouted.
“Hey, Miller! What are you doing? Get in! Hurry up!”
The other guys, who had been blinking in bewilderment, belatedly grasped the situation and distorted their faces. Grayson, who was leaning against the wall, also frowned, as if he didn’t understand. But Ezra didn’t care and kept calling his name.
“Get in quick, hurry! Come here, we have to Deployment!”
“Hey, are you crazy?”
One of the guys, who belatedly came to his senses, urgently grabbed Ezra’s shoulder. With a hushed voice and glaring eyes, he continued to urge Ezra.
“Why are you calling that bastard? What help is he going to be?”
“Right, it’s a good thing if he doesn’t mess things up.”
“Just leave him alone, you get in quick.”
The other guys also joined in and added a word each. Their words seemed right at first glance, but Ezra’s thoughts were different.
“Hey, what if that bastard really sets the fire station on fire if we leave him here? It’s not like someone’s going to be watching him.”
At those words, the voices that had been urging him stopped all at once. Ezra, who had been looking back and forth at the momentarily shaking eyes, nodded his head, saying, ‘Yeah.’
“He’s going to cause an accident as soon as he’s out of sight, that bastard. It’s better to drag him along and let him loiter there. Then either one of us will see him, or someone among the people watching the fire will discover that bastard doing something stupid.”
Ezra’s words were too plausible. Considering that they had been talking about him even right before the Deployment, his concern was quite persuasive.
“That makes sense.”
As soon as one person agreed, the same opinions poured out one after another.
“Right, let’s take him. I’m anxious when he’s not in front of me.”
“He wouldn’t really set a fire, would he…”
“That bastard is a Dominant Alpha, a psychopath. He’s definitely going to do something huge that we can’t even imagine without batting an eye. We have to prevent our station from disappearing, right?”
If it was possible just by taking him, they could do it as much as possible. Thanks to that, everyone’s opinions coincided, and they started shouting Grayson’s name in unison.
“Miller, come quick! It’s finally Deployment!”
“Yeah, you passed the test with so much effort, now you have to really become a firefighter!”
“Let’s go, we’ll make a place for you too. Miller, come quick!”
At the sound of everyone shouting in unison, Grayson was still standing there with an unpleasant expression. But they didn’t give in and kept calling him. Even though the loud siren was ringing incessantly, they were in a state where they wouldn’t budge unless Grayson got in.
“Haa.”
In the end, Grayson let out an annoyed sigh and took his body off the wall. His expression as he walked towards the car was full of boredom, but everyone pretended not to notice and waited. And as he got close enough to reach, Ezra and the rest of the guys grabbed Grayson’s arm and pushed him into the car as if they had been waiting.
“Let’s go, let’s go! Dane, what are you doing? Get in quick!”
The guys who climbed in one after another called Dane. Dane, who had been watching them with a pathetic expression until then, got into the fire truck for the last time without saying a word. Wilkins’ shouting was heard from behind.
“Slow, you’re slow! DeAndre, you get in over there! Everyone’s in? We’re leaving!”
Wilkins, who was about to get into the car right away, suddenly discovered Grayson sitting in the back seat. The Station Chief’s words suddenly came to his mind, and he flinched, but there was no time to waste. He had no choice but to get into the passenger seat, and the guy in the driver’s seat immediately started the car. And the fire truck sped onto the road with a loud siren.
The fire had occurred in a quiet residential area. The old neighborhood, which was usually seen when passing by, was always quiet and peaceful. A fire in a place where children often ran around and the elderly leisurely tended their gardens.
“My mother-in-law lives there too.”
A colleague, who was the head of a household with only two daughters, said with noticeable anxiety. Leaving behind the sight of him urgently calling home, worried about his family at home, another guy asked Wilkins.
“Have all the people been evacuated?”
“It’s probably a mess right now. We’ll have to go and check.”
Dane, who had been silently crossing his arms and waiting to reach his destination, suddenly stopped. Grayson, who was sitting across from him, was looking at him. As soon as their eyes met, the sweet scent that was always felt near that bastard felt even stronger. It wasn’t because of the enclosed environment of the car. It wasn’t just Dane who felt it, as the other guys also turned their gazes to Grayson.
Even while gathering uncomfortable gazes, he didn’t seem to care at all. Rather, everyone hesitated and closed their mouths at the sight of Grayson Miller’s face, who had a faint blush on his cheeks and a faint smile, as if he was excited. Seeing his colleagues, who had been so vocal about him in the weight room, avoiding his eyes altogether, Dane thought to himself, ‘Well, that’s what I expected.’
It’s only a loss for us to face a crazy person head-on. It was a rule he had followed while living, but unlike the other guys, Dane didn’t take his eyes off him. Rather, with a frown and narrowed eyes, he leaned back in his chair and sat with his legs arrogantly spread, and Grayson, who was sitting across from him, also closed his mouth and stared intently at Dane. For a while, the two just glared at each other like that. No one opened their mouth. Only uncomfortable silence continued in the rapidly moving car.
It was Grayson who changed his expression first. The face with a crooked mouth and a smirk could only be seen as sarcastic. Dane twitched his eyebrows, but that was all. Seeing him like that, Grayson recalled someone’s words.
-When you do that job and help others, it also means that the other person will appear. Anyway, the keyword is fire.