Chapter 1


Chapter 1:

On the day the Bennett and Harper families united through marriage, the heavens seemed to unleash their fury, coloring the sky with the deep crimson of roaring flames.

Daniela Harper, clad in her wedding finery, watched in despair as her groom, Alexander Bennett, heroically swept Joyce Holt into his arms and navigated through the scorching heat, not once glancing back at her.

Trapped beneath a massive, fallen screen, Daniela was rendered immobile by its weight, her eyes brimming with tears of frustration and fear.

The air was thick with acrid smoke, and as Daniela struggled for breath, the encroaching shadows of unconsciousness began to cloud her vision. The grim thought of perishing in the blaze gnawed at her mind.

Yet, just as hope seemed to flicker out, a figure emerged through the smoke.

Strong arms lifted her effortlessly, and the steady, reassuring thud of her rescuer’s heartbeat against her ear brought an odd solace amidst the chaos.

Suddenly, a piercing hiss cut through the muffled sounds of destruction.

and confusion, Daniela mustered the strength to pry her eyes open, only to be met with a suffocating veil of smoke that obscured her

her fingers brushed against something sticky and unsettling. Instinctively, the man bearing her weight

in her

fierce warmth that had scorched her face began to

more content

of her eyelids, she strained

clouded her vision, she glimpsed a distinctive mole near the man’s eye—a mole that stirred a

once more,

the ambulance has arrived. The Harper family is already aboard. We must

moreover, today marks Miss Harper’s wedding. If people see her with another man, it’ll become the talk of the

her uneasy slumber in the stark, frigid confines of

outside, bathing everything in its ghostly, somber light. The room

were grievous: a cracked rib and a deep, ragged cut marred her left cheek. The doctor had cautioned that

broke, the doctor returned

around the empty room, he queried, “Where’s

with a bitter smile. She had tried to reach Alexander

a sigh, the doctor advised, “Try to keep still; moving too much could worsen your injuries. If there’s no one

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