Reborn Through Fire

Chapter 926 She Asks Him to Stay

She pulled the quilt tighter around her body, staying still as she heard footsteps in the living room. They sounded heavy and intermittent. Even without looking, she could tell that it was Gilbert’s footsteps.

She was so familiar with that man that she could even recognize his footsteps right away, but she never understood what was in his mind. Otherwise, she would not have been deceived by him so much. She had known him for many years and was familiar with him, but she had never had access to his heart.

Gilbert quietly looked at the plain furnishings of the house. He missed her a lot these days, like going crazy. But he still did not dare to go to her and see her. In the end, he could only come to her house to recollect the bits and pieces between them. He had never expected that the sweet time they had spent together before would only become a dream that was so out of his reach. Now that his dream was shattered. Even the memory of it still hurts. He sat down wearily on the couch, leaning his head back on the back of the couch with his eyes slightly closed. What lingered in his head was her face. There was happiness and sweetness. But there was also grief, hatred, and callousness.

in the hospital the other day. He subconsciously frowned, his heart again aching badly. ‘Grandma is right; I’m the only one who is most trapped in this relationship. And now, what should I do? I can’t extricate myself unless I die,’

his eyes abruptly, and saw Kisa leaning against the doorway of her

to see her icily unforgiving face, afraid that she would mention Jensen’s accident to him. Although Jensen’s accident was his unintentional mistake, he did not have the courage to explain himself and shirk

looked at him quietly, with no expression

sorry. I shouldn’t have come here.” With that, he headed outside. Since she had said she would be sick at the sight of him, he tried

at him from behind, her hands secretly clenched at her sides. After a while, she chased after him as if she had made up her mind about something. “Don’t go!” She