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.

the fire, and now, with the

chest ached with the pressure, my breathing was labored, and my lungs were quickly

not make a sound or

knew that if the car kept burning, it would eventually explode, and I would be

it seemed all

here, I was not scared, just overwhelmed with a sense of defeat and frustration.

sleeve. I was just an average Joe, and in a

The severe lack of oxygen to my brain and lungs left me feeling completely drained. My vision faded, and

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 the silence was the erratic whoosh of the wind and the

pounding on a car window, fading in and out. My

and throat screamed with a searing pain.

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expel the smoke that filled my lungs. Gently patting my back, someone then slipped something over my face. Fresh air flooded my system with each breath, and after a few moments, my mind cleared, and I realized I was