He wanted to go directly home. He wanted to see Maddie again. He hadn't felt so eager to leave the firehouse in a long time. Work had been his salvation the last few years. But getting home would have to wait. First, he had to meet his father. If his dad hadn't asked him to come to the office, he might have tried to put him off, but when he went to headquarters, Jack Callaway was Deputy Chief of Operations and he was a Battalion Chief. He didn't ignore a direct call from his Deputy Chief. He just hoped he could limit the conversation to Mitch's behavior. He didn't want to get into a discussion with his father about Leanne.When he got to his dad's office, he was surprised to see Colton standing in the hallway, texting someone on his phone. His youngest brother wore jeans and a T-shirt under a gray jacket. Like Burke, Colton was working the same shift out of another firehouse, a firehouse run by Captain Mitch Warren. "Colton," he said. Colton looked up and gave him a nod. "One second. I have to send this to Olivia.""How is Olivia?" Colton's girlfriend was in the process of relocating her life from New York to San Francisco and had been going back and forth the past few months."She's good," Colton said with a happy smile.
