My Fiancé Confessed to Cheating novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Ashes at Dawn
I put the phone in my pocket and went down the iron stair.
The metal was already warm under my hand.
Corrado was at the bottom, holding the door open against the smoke.
"Is anyone inside?" I shouted.
"The watchman's out. He's on the quay."
"The night crew?"
"Out. All of them. I checked."
The far end of the warehouse was a wall of orange.
The heat came across the concrete in waves.
The dockworkers had dragged the harbor hoses off their reels and were pouring seawater onto the near end, where the roof still stood.
Corrado's two men were with them, in their shirtsleeves, hauling hose.
I took the end of a line from an old man who couldn't hold it steady.
It kicked in my hands.
I braced my feet and held it.
The fire engines came from town twenty minutes later, with their sirens going the whole length of the harbor road.
By then the roof at the far end had come down.
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