Cassie is competent, physically fit, and knowledgeable, but the parting words of her former captain are never far from her mind “Go above and beyond at every chance. But when a very public altercation with a public official lands her on the chopping block, it was either apologize (NEVER), be terminated (a formerly believed impossibility), or leave everything behind in Texas to move to a Boston firehouse and help train up a rookie. “What if I transferred? To another department?” (35-37)Ĭareer focused firefighter Cassie Hanwell never dreamed she’d be moving across country to care for the mother who abandoned her and her father on her sixteenth birthday. “What if there’s another option?” I asked. “If you don’t apologize, I have to terminate your contract,” she said. Was I really going to go there? Was I really going to dig in and not budge? “That’s his deal: Apologize, and we all move on.”
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