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?”

Chapter said, “So

eyes. “Can’t you say anything

I wanted to say that; there

“There are killers?” When Gilbert took the knife and went to Kisa’s room, the two killers had already left. Everything in the room was as usual as if the two killers were just a figment of Kisa’s imagination. But the hole in the bedding pierced by a 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 well and been careless tonight. ‘If Kisa had slept as soundly as I did, she would have

Kisa said nothing.

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

stood in the bathroom’s doorway, face pale, obviously

outside the window

would have been dead,” Kisa said, relieved that they

she would have been helpless.