Briar
I rolled on my back and groaned. I blinked a few times, struggling to adjust to the orange hue in the room and the smooth. I broke out in a fit of coughs. The fire spread quickly.
My store. Everything I worked for.
I hauled myself off the ground. The hall into the main store area was in flames.
“Oh my…” I coughed.
How was I going to get out? I attempted to enter the store, but the fire’s snarl kept me back. I could hear wood splitting and burning all around me.
I couldn’t die in here. Cassian still needed me. I just got back together with Severin. He would think life was so unfair. I had so much to look forward to. Glass shattered in the store and flew everywhere.
I knew it was the window in the store. My phone was in the store on the counter, and the windows in my office w
