The Persuasion by Iris Johansen

Author:Iris Johansen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

10

Kendrick Castle

1:40 A.M.

Jane tried to gasp, but there was no air!

She couldn’t breathe!

What was happening…

Pain…

Her lungs were on fire…

She was coughing, trying to stop that searing congestion—

Not right. Something was wrong.

She opened her eyes and immediately closed them again as the stinging smoke struck them.

Smoke?

She forced herself to open her eyes again and saw the haze of smoke in the tent.

Something had to be on fire!

Michael! No, Michael was with Joe. He’d be okay.

Lisa…She had to get Lisa out of the tent.

She grabbed her shoes, jeans, and shirt from the camp chair. Then she was crawling across the tent toward Lisa’s sleeping bag. She shook her hard. “Get up.” Her voice was a croak. “Fire.”

Lisa opened her eyes and then started coughing as soon as she took a deep breath. “What are you doing?”

“I’m saving you. Get the hell up.” She got to her knees and then her feet. She tried to take shallow breaths to keep from inhaling that stinging smoke. “Get out of here. Hurry. I have to go check on Joe and Michael…”

“I am hurrying. I’ll go…with you.” Lisa was staggering to her feet and grabbing her clothes. “But I don’t see any fire in here, just smoke…”

Neither did Jane, and once she was outside for a brief instant even the smoke seemed less dense. “No fire? Then I don’t know what that—”

And then she saw the fire.

The entire lower tent city was in flames! Dozens and dozens of the volunteers’ tents were blazing. And the fire was creeping closer to the mess tent and the showers.

Screams!

Jane saw one of the students run out of a tent enveloped in flames. Dear God, even her hair was on fire!

“I’ve got to go help.” She was throwing on her clothes and shoes. “Wake up Joe and Michael, Lisa…”

“I’m awake.” Michael was standing outside Joe’s tent with Joe just behind him. His eyes were wide with horror as he gazed down at the blazing tents. “What happened? Why, Jane?”

“We don’t know how it started. That’s not important now. We’ve just got to get those people out of there. Stay with your dad, Michael. Call the fire department, Lisa.” Then she was running down the hill.

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