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?”

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

his eyes. “Can’t you say

that I wanted to say that; there really

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 Kids had slept as soundly as I did, she would have been killed.‘ The more he thought about it, the more fearful he was. He turned to Kisa and said in a deep voice, “You sleep with me for

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

doorway, face pale,

switched rooms with you.” Gilbert was chagrined. There was no platform outside the window of

switched rooms with me, you would have been dead,” Kisa said, relieved that they did not

Gilbert was dead, she would have