Ashes at the Celebration

The kindergarten was engulfed in flames. My four-year-old daughter was trapped inside.

I pleaded desperately with my firefighter husband, "Nina is upstairs!"

He snapped impatiently, "You're just trying to stop me from saving Dana's daughter. How could you be so cruel? Dana is fragile. If she loses her child, it will destroy her. She won't survive this."

That night, he emerged from the fire carrying Dana's daughter, instantly becoming a hero.

Even at midnight, when I wept by the side of our daughter's ashes, he was still with Dana.

"Samuel Leif, you'll pay for this!"