Sweet Submission: Reclaiming Her Love

Chapter 49 Near–Death Experience

Eyes darting all over the place in a frenzied search for tools, Coryne reached for a Borning was to r wrist. She let out a yelp and dropped the insanely hot stick like a hot potato, Bot compet to bring suffering

a few burns was nothing

So, she gritted her teeth and picked it up again, enduring the searing pain.

She ingeniously used the stick to dig into the wall, clumps of soil and loose pebbles raining tons on te be but she didn’t have the time to care. The fire was getting stronger and stronger, and it was only a matter of time before the tree trunk gave out.

She worked quickly and methodically, burrowing into the dirt like a crazed dog

She wanted to live.

She still had so much to live for. Her parents were waiting for her at home, and the Harper Group needed her

As these thoughts swirled around in her mind, she heard the crackling of the fire and the tree trunk sitting

from above her.

Her back felt like it was on fire, and though her arms ached and her grip weakened, she didn’t stop digging

Her fingers and knuckles bled from countless abrasions, and blisters formed on her palms from dutching the

stick so tightly.

But in the end, it was all worth it. She finally managed to carve out a tunnel big enough for her to cravi through. Just as the flames above approached, Corynn crawled into the makeshift passage, but not before her calf got hit by a fallen branch.

She gasped sharply from the pain.

leg out from under the heavy branch and continued to throw dirt onto

fire.

of soil onto the smoldering flames, the fire

Corynn collapsed to the ground. With the immediate danger over, her adrenaline faded, and now, she felt

trembling uncontrollably, tears streaming down

narrowly

her energy, and now, she wanted

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sleep.

only half the battle was over. Forcing herself to get up, the searched for her phone among

only hope now lay with

cried silently, the intense pain

if Coby and his men

what could she do? She had exhausted all her strength, even standing up was a challenge

her knees, waiting helplessly for

long last, she heard the sound of sirens wailing in

head, tears of joy rolling down her

the police find her, she kept banging the stick on

attention.

hurried footsteps heading her

and rescue team approaching, she finally felt a wave of relief, and knowing that she was

had been in a meeting when Corynn’s call came through. He froze for a moment, but before

to go through. “Oh, right,”

first, Elliot thought that Corynn had dialed him by mistake. But the