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.

figured out how before the fire, and now, with

ached with the pressure, my breathing was labored, and my lungs were quickly smothered in the acrid smoke. Each breath was sharp with

a sound

explode, and I would be blown to

all I could do

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

superhero with some kind of magic trick up my sleeve. I was just an average Joe, and in

lungs left me feeling completely drained.

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 crackle of a fierce fire, and then, a distant ‘thump–thump‘ noise. Thump–thump….

window, fading in and out. My consciousness was slipping

came to, my chest and throat screamed with a searing

Waiting to

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body was racked with coughs, desperate to 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