Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 6

“Dexter… Phoebe doesn’t want you to marry me.” Melody sobbed as she spoke.

“Leave her alone. We’re gonna get hitched no matter what, and she’ll crawl back when she sees she’s out of moves.” Dexter assumed that I was deliberately throwing a wrench into his and

Melody’s engagement party.

He made it public like he couldn’t wait to shout it from the rooftops. He figured that once I realized I couldn’t change things. I’d back off and leave him alone. But what he didn’t know was that I had let him go for a long time.

If I were still alive, I’d probably be on a plane out of Sea City by now.

“Dexter… Why does Phoebe hate me so? She pushed me down the stairs, which nearly killed. me, and now she’s trying to wreck our engagement ceremony with these dirty tricks. Hailey would never agree to this if she knew,” Melody cried.

Dexter’s face turned even uglier. “What else can she do besides sweet–talk my mom with her tricks?”

I laughed sarcastically and couldn’t even be bothered to explain anymore. It’s not like he could hear anything’I said. He never listened to me when I was alive, let alone now that I was dead.

Dexter and Melody went to the bedroom, and I sat on the couch like a total mess.

Laughter occasionally burst from the room, like a knife cutting through my soul..

soul trembling. That unborn child just vanished

belly, he’d probably wake up laughing from his

“Buzz!”

3 a.m., Dexter’s

sounded annoyed.

on her wrist is confirmed to belong to your sister Phoebe. Please come and identify the body.”

sat up abruptly,

outside the window, and Dexter’s head was suddenly splitting with pain.

At the flash of lightning, Dexter thought he saw a figure in the living

much like Phoebe.

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Dexter in surprise. Can he actually see me?

after, Dexter cursed, grabbed his coat, and got

woke up too and came out barefoot.

too attractive. All women just want him. I didn’t expect you to be so gullible to truly believe what I said. Well, you deserved to

her while screaming out, “You killed me, it was you! I’ll

tried to take down the woman who caused my death, but I couldn’t do a thing; my hands couldn’t even touch

my revenge; I was powerless.

Homicide