The Firefighter's Match
“It was better for everyone if they never spoke again. Daxon had, in fact, given the whole family strict orders not to talk to anyone from the studio or AG without a member of his office present.
Still, she found herself hounded by the hollow look she’d seen in Alex’s eyes at the press conference yesterday. He took the news of that second gear failure as if it were a physical blow, as if he’d personally been injured. That kind of response couldn’t be hidden or faked—that was true pain. JJ knew because she’d felt a blow like that herself. She could easily remember how it had shot a hole through her insides to know her mistake had killed Angie Carlisle.
It went so much deeper than military advantage or corporate profitability—it was human pain. Like hers, JJ knew Alex’s wound would heal but never disappear. Daxon and Max were all victorious after the conference, too full of “we’re going to make sure they pay” language to think of who’d actually have to pay the cost.
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