The keys were still cold from sitting in his dad’s van when the York Arms caught fire.
Teddy saw the smoke coming from the fourth-floor apartment. The payphone was farther away than the smoke, so he hit the stairs running, grabbing the fire extinguisher, which looked like a museum piece.
It was a helluva way to inherit a building, he would always remember.
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