I Rejected the Firefighter Who Died for Me, Now I Chase Him novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Clean Pulse
Ko Tae-min woke to the sound of someone breathing badly.
It was not him.
He had a clear tube under his nose and a clip on his finger, and the room was bright and white and smelled of sanitizer.
His right hand was wrapped. His throat felt scraped with a rasp.
He turned his head on the pillow.
Ha Seo-won was asleep in the visitor chair, with his legs folded under him and his tie gone.
His collar was black with soot.
Both his palms lay open on his knees, blistered red across the heels, where he had gripped a handrail for thirty-four floors.
He coughed in his sleep, a small dry cough, again and again, and did not wake.
Tae-min lay very still and looked at him.
He remembered the fifth landing, and the woman who had stopped talking, and the mask he had pushed onto her face.
He remembered his own air alarm, shrieking in his ear, and the odd peaceful thought that he had at least timed it right.
Then a voice had said in the dark, Don't look. Just breathe.
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