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.

her suite flickered out, including the small nightlight

started in the utility room on the first floor of the Empire Hotel, and it spread through the ventilation ducts faster than anyone could have imagined. In less

setting fire to everything they touched—carpets, curtains, blankets,

full-blown blaze, but Brenna stayed deep asleep,

was also

sleep, but even the choking smoke didn’t wake them. The entire

Brenna’s room, the smoke grew thicker by the minute, so dense that it was

and suffocating. She dreamt she was trapped inside a smoke-filled room, frantically searching for a way out, only to find

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making every breath painful. The heat of the flames seemed

a desperate push, she forced herself awake, only to find the nightmare was all too real. Smoke surrounded her, and her blanket was already halfway consumed by flames. She could even feel the