Reborn Through Fire

Chapter 679 I Thought You Had Been Killed

She held her breath, stared at the darkness in front of her, and could not hold back her cry. She was trembling, her inner fear devouring her little by little like this endless darkness.

Suddenly, there was a soft sound in the darkness. It was the sound of a switch being turned on, and with that soft click, the room lit up. Gilbert rubbed his eyes and frowned at her. “What happened? Did you have a nightmare?”

Kisa was transfixed, looking at him and forgetting all her movements. She was dumbfounded, tears still on her face, and she looked a bit wretched.

Gilbert looked baffled. He was clearly half–awake, his hair disheveled, his eyes groggy, and the thermal underwear on his body wrinkled.

“I was dreaming, and I heard someone crying. I listened carefully, and it sounded like you. Then I woke up and found that you were really crying.” Seeing that she stood transfixed in the doorway without responding, he could not help but smile. “Why are you crying?”

lump in her throat, she Chapter said, “So you are not dead. I thought you

his eyes. “Can’t you

wanted to say that; there really

knife was a clear sign the killers were not a figment of Kisa’s imagination or her nightmare. He rubbed the hole in the mattress with trepidation, realizing that he had slept too

Kisa said nothing.

enough for an adult to climb in. He looked out the window. There was a platform below the window for the air conditioning unit, with one on every floor. But because there were ordinary rooms below the eighth floor and only one suite on the eighth floor, the layouts were different. So the platform below the window on the eighth floor was not directly above the one on the seventh floor. The killers should have climbed onto the eighth floor from

doorway, face pale, obviously still

There was no platform outside the window of

switched rooms with me, you would have been dead,” Kisa

was dead, she would have