Chapter 165: A Promise to a Friend

Judd arrived home after midnight, happy to be finished with another twenty-four-hour shift. He loved his job as a paramedic with Fire/Rescue, but it had been a busy shift. What he wanted now was a nice juicy steak and some down time. Currently between girlfriends, he was content to grill up his beef and settle in with sports on television. The Dolphins had had an appalling season. Hopefully the Heat would fare better.

As his steak cooked, he gazed out across the beach to the waves that crashed onto the sand. There was a storm out at sea. Lightening flashed in the distance, though it was too far out to hear the thunder. The wind was whipping up the surf into a white froth. He wondered vaguely whether his colleagues would be called out tomorrow to transport swimmers caught up in rip currents, and he sighed, glad to be off for the next twenty-four.