Reborn Through Fire

Chapter 116 I Truly Lost My Family Kisa ignored his scornful expression and placed the bowl of chicken soup in front of him. “I made you some chicken soup; it‘s good for you.”

Gilbert glanced at the creamy chicken soup before turning to her sharply, “Stop beating around the bush. Tell me, what is it that you want from me?”

He refused to believe there was no hidden agenda behind her kindness to him.

‘Everything nice that she had done for me had ulterior motives,‘ he thought.

Just as he had expected, she stopped putting on a facade. “I need your help with something.” Gilbert scoffed and did not respond.

Kisa quickly added, “It‘s not something difficult. I was hoping that you could take me to the Case family‘s house sometime this week,”

Sharon has set a trap for me; that‘s why she wants me to attend Grandpa‘s birthday banquet so badly. As long as I get my hands on my mother‘s belongings before the banquet, Sharon will have a hard time pulling off her plan. However, I won‘t be able to step foot into the Case family‘s house on my own. Even if I do manage to get in, Sharon and her mother, Carolyn Marshall, would never hand over my mother‘s belongings. I have no choice but to ask for Gilbert‘s help,‘ Kisa thought.

For a moment, Gilbert was startled. Then, he sneered, “The Case family‘s house is your house too. Isn‘t it funny for you to ask me to take you to your own house? Or are you plotting something wicked?”

peered at Gilbert. He had an expression that was filled with ridicule and

family still allow me to enter the house now that I‘ve been in jail? My request is simple; I‘m only asking you to take me to the Case family‘s house. Was it necessary for you to ridicule and scorn me?”

felt bitter and

to retrieve my mother‘s belongings. It doesn‘t even matter if Sharon made up said belongings to set me up; I just want to go

when he saw Kisa‘s teary

going to the

retrieve my mother‘s belongings,” Kisa

response. He said coolly, “I‘ll take you there tomorrow if I‘m free. You

she wiped away her tears

to return to the Case family‘s house to retrieve her mother‘s belongings out of the blue? Why didn‘t she do it when she was

The following day.

for Gilbert‘s

Are you hungry?” Kisa asked him several questions in a row. However, the hurried expression on her face showed no signs of concern. Gilbert lightly scoffed and did not answer. Kisa could not decipher the

“What‘s with the rush? I didn‘t even get to take a sip of water!” When Kisa heard his words, she quickly ran back into the house and poured him a glass of water. She was so desperate she almost fed