CHAPTER 47

First of all, it was the heat. It was hot, so hot she wondered what was happening. She remembered opening the windows but it was unbearably hot. Secondly it was the smoke that congested her nostrils. Alyssa forced her eyes open and was terrified when she found her room shrouded in thick smoke. She jumped from the bed and began to cough and tear up from the smoke.

What the hell was happening? Before she could waste time wondering, she dragged herself to the door and forced it open, falling in the process. She didn't know how much smoke she had inhaled but she was sure it was a lot.

Screams and cries for help broke out in the villa and Alyssa tried to find her way to the hallway. If she could make it past the hallways then she would be saved. But the smoke was too thick and she couldn't find her way. It was like a fog.

She dragged herself to a wall, coughing and choking till her body couldn't take it anymore. She collapsed.

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The fire had occurred in a cargo room of the staircase on t