Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 369

A sudden thought flashed through my mind.

I needed more evidence to confirm their identities or at least buy some time for a potential chance. But I also wondered if they were testing my limits.

I was a woman living alone with no one to rely on. I knew I couldn't act recklessly in situations like this; I had to stay calm and use my wits. Taccessed the situation. Judging from the looks of it, there were just the three of them. As my mind spun for solutions, I mew I had to try to distract him if I had to

act

I raised my voice slightly and pretended to search for my phone while monitoring their movements from the comer of my eye.

othe

*So sorry. I think I left my phone in the living room. Give me a moment, and I'll be right back." As I said so, I slowly turned and pretended to head back into

house.

door. Though it was a simple decoration, it could be a makeshift weapon at a crucial moment. Just as i was about to reach the flower pot, the leader suddenly stepped forward. There was a warming in his voice

beat, but 1 maintained my composure. Ined to force a smile to

scanning the room for potential escape routes or defensive tools. Then, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside my

TV door.

leaped to my throat, and it was palpitating so wildly that I could almost hear it. The footsteps grew closer and headed straight for

silently prayed that it was a neighbor or a passerby who might bring

hallway followed by

bolted back inside. I needed to use this brief moment of chaos to escape. "Get her!" the

the dark living room and grabbed a fruit knife at the tea table to

grown men, but it might

down! We mean no harm!" the leader shouted as he ran after me. His tone was no longer calm and

explanations. My mind was solely focused on trying to escape

mouse in the confined space