Facade of Love

Chapter 247 Waiting to Die.

With no other choice, I started rummaging through the car, desperate to find anything that might help me out.

“Pop…” The sound of a tiny spark igniting and then bursting into flame was soft, but it reached my ears.

I was frozen for a second before I realized the car’s interior had become noticeably warmer. Without thinking, I glanced out the window and saw that, at some point, flames had begun to dance around the car, trapping it. The mountain winds were fierce, scattering embers into the trees and underbrush.

The surrounding forest caught fire in no time at all, and with the help of the gusty wind and the scorching sun, the blaze grew wild and unstoppable.

Within minutes, the car filled with thick, choking smoke.

“Cough, cough…”

Suddenly, my nose and chest were packed with smoke. Trying to take even the smallest breath made my throat and sinuses scream in pain, making it impossible to breathe.

fire, and now, with the flames spreading, how could I possibly find a way?

ached with the pressure, my breathing was labored, and my

sound or summon

burning, it would eventually explode, and I would be

cry for help, it seemed all I could do was wait helplessly for the end.

just overwhelmed with a sense of defeat and frustration. There was so much I had not done yet, and I

up my sleeve. I was just an

lack of oxygen to my brain and lungs left me feeling completely drained. My vision faded, and even my consciousness started to slip

often said that when one was near death, one’s sense of hearing would be the first to fade. That was exactly how it felt, lost in an endless darkness, unable to call out or fight back. The only thing that cut through

a car window, fading in and

I came to, my chest and throat screamed with a searing pain.

Waiting

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over my face.