Healing Embrace

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

2:04 AM, Friday, May 15th

A God awful buzzing sound disturbed her slumber. It had taken her ages to get to sleep and now something irritating had her awake and annoyed. She pulled the extra pillow over her right ear and tried to smash her head in between the two.

No luck. The infernal buzzing sound kept going off.

It was coming from somewhere down the hall, as near as she could tell. She got out of bed and trundled over to the door, her legs heavy. When she opened it, she quickly realized that her bad night had just gotten a whole lot worse – for her and for every other guest in the hotel.

A haze of smoke hung over the hallway. The loud buzzing was the fire alarm going off non-stop. Other people started filing into the hall too, trying to figure out what all the racket was.