Chapter 332

The fire began to spread around her and she choked on her tears. She moved her wrists, but they were bound tightly. The fire grew fiercer and fiercer, and there was the sound of gunfire from outside, dense at first and then fading to a sparse sound that seemed to be the end of the battle. The fire here began to come at her in a frenzy, and she could even feel the rolling heat coming from her back. Serena's eyes became more and more disoriented and she finally fainted. The moment Matthew turned to leave, she suddenly wasn't afraid of death at all; even if she was being burned inch by inch by the fire here, it didn't seem like anything to be afraid of. It would be better to burn the hope in her heart to ashes all at once. In her stupor, she had a very long dream about a snowy night when she was taken into an alley by a strange man who was desperately sucking her blood to tear the flesh from her neck. In her hand was a warm cup of milk that she had bought from a street vendor for only thr