Against the Countdown
Gilbert Pierce, my wife's male trainee, bragged that he could disarm a bomb just by relying on his senses and with his eyes closed.
However, he misjudged it and triggered the bomb's secondary detonation sequence.
I stepped in at the last second and used the most dangerous method available, liquid nitrogen flash cooling, to save the entire building.
Gilbert was pulled off frontline duty and placed on suspension for review.
My wife, Jasmine Clem, tried to speak up for him, but I stopped her cold.
"If you defend him now, you won't save him. You'll just get dragged down and suspended alongside him."
Unable to handle the pressure, Gilbert blew himself up in an accident. In his suicide note,
Sikat na Kabanata