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Chapter 309

Author: A Thousand Reliefs
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56
Elijah clenched his phone. “Run!”

Sally was dumbfounded. Why did she need to run?

She turned her head around instinctively.

Thanks to the petroleum, the flames were sky-high in an instant.

The shack looked as if it had been swallowed by an invisible mouth!

Elijah threw his phone aside, jumped down from the balcony, and ran toward her as he shouted, “Sally Summers, run!”

However, the girl standing before the shack did not seem to hear him as she pulled her jacket off and immersed it in the pail of water. She clapped her jacket over her mouth and nose before rushing straight into the burning house.

Zoey was still asleep inside!

“Cough cough cough…”

Zoey had been awakened by the smoke and fire.

When she tried to get off the bed, she forgot that her ankle was still twisted, and fell to the ground, unable to get back up.

She was struggling to get up from the floor when Sally rushed into the room.

She couldn't care less about the fire at that moment.

The girl bent do
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