Contract Marriage With The Disabled CEO

Chapter 98 A Big Fire 

After Betty got out of Jeffrey‘s car and returned to her villa, she ate dinner as she usually did. Soon she went for a bath before going to bed. 

She felt strange and extremely sleepy that day and even when she was taking a bath, she felt dizzy. Almost as soon as her head touched the pillow, she fell asleep. No dream had interrupted her sleep. 

She didn‘t know how late it had been when she was awakened by a pungent smell of smoke. 

She coughed while she was sleeping, feeling stifled by the smoke. 

Then she struggled a little and woke up. Her eyelids were heavy and her eyes ached because of the smoke. 

There seemed to be something wrong. She got up quickly. But when she sat up, Betty 

found her body so weak that she had no strength at all. 

The woman wondered what went wrong with 

her. 

But she could not care so much at that 

moment. She turned on the light on the bedside table immediately. 

Then she saw the whole room submerged in the billowing black smoke. 

Was it on fire? 

Betty was so frightened. The pungent smoke made her cough worse. But she calmed down as soon as she could. Then she stumbled out of bed, dragging her tired body, grabbed her coat and rushed out of the room. 

But when she opened the door, she was completely dumbfounded. 

There was a spreading fire. 

Thanks to the door, the flames didn‘t burn 

its way into her room. But now that she was at the entrance, she saw the whole corridor was gobbed by the fire, the tongues of the flames greedily licking the pillars and walls. 

“Lillian! Robert!” At that moment, Betty was still worried about the two elderly people in the villa. But no one responded after she called several times. Then she was choked again by the smoke. 

She couldn‘t care too much at the moment. She had to get herself out of danger first. 

But it was impossible for her to escape such a big fire by rushing out directly. It was too late. 

with a blanket in her hand. She

protection of

lowered her body as much as possible in the burning corridor to avoid inhaling too much smoke.

found the fire was bigger. Several steps had been burnt down, which made it impossible

saw a cloud of

seconds before she realized

second, a familiar slender body rushed over through the smoke.

are you?”

felt shocked yet delighted. She screamed as if she finally had the hope of being

railing in the corridor suddenly

it.” Betty heard Jeffrey muffled a curse. And he yelled to her, “Stay there and I‘ll come to your

responded to Jeffrey, all of a sudden she remembered

still

was certain about

He usually kept it in the drawer when he went to work or

fierce, the necklace might not be intact since the fire

certainly burn the table

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would

the scene when he held the necklace with a sorrowful

when she could be safe and sound while leaving Kerwin‘s treasure back in the room to be burnt to

husband‘s beloved treasure. She really couldn‘t have

looked at the blanket on herself. It was still wet. She could use it to keep off the harm of the flames for a while. The fire was not as ferocious as it was before. And perhaps it would still take Jeffrey some time to

lips, held her breath and screamed, “Jeffrey, I have to

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to get something.”

He heard Betty‘s yelling and shouted back to her with rage, “Betty, are you crazy? What can be more important than your

anything more and ran back to the

body felt kind of fatigued for some reason. But she could not pay attention to it. She just held her breath and darted

too fast, and inhaled too much smoke. The dark fog made her cough badly,

at that time the fire had already spread into the room. The table was burning, Betty went over to open the drawer

the fabric was almost dried up by

nearly scalded

she screamed in pain. But she was determined to pull out

spotted the crystal necklace, taking it

but it was a combustible object and once it was taken out, it was burned

up the picture, and held the necklace tightly, but did not dare to exert too much

to the door to try to get out, the bookcase by the entrance suddenly