The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 578:

Yet, since it was the middle of the night and it was standard practice for the guards to rest after their rounds, Ethan didn’t think much of it.

“Goodnight,” he said to Brenna.

“Goodnight.”

Brenna and Ethan then disappeared into their rooms.

The faint scent of air freshener lingered in Brenna’s room. She sniffed the air a couple of times and, finding nothing out of the ordinary, assumed that housekeeping had come in to tidy up while she had been out.

After a quick shower, she soon drifted into a deep sleep, probably exhausted from the busy day and evening banquet.

out,

and it spread through the ventilation ducts faster than anyone could have imagined. In less than ten minutes, the flames consumed the entire building. Sparks shot through the ducts, landing in rooms and

tiny sparks were relentless, quickly setting fire

roared into a full-blown blaze, but Brenna stayed

also

choking smoke didn’t wake them. The entire building’s

the smoke grew thicker by the minute, so dense that it was impossible to see anything two

was trapped inside a smoke-filled room, frantically searching for a way out, only to find every door

𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓸 ⲅ𝓪𝓁𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝓈⧸𝓬𝓸𝓶

breath painful. The heat of

nightmare was all too real. Smoke surrounded her, and her blanket was already halfway consumed by