Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 8

“Dexter, that guy… he’s freaking me out: he’s staring at me.

Melody’s voice trembled as she hid behind Dexter.

I glanced back and breathed a sigh of relief; the creep wasn’t leering at me, but at Melody.

He was glaring at Melody with a rage that simmered in silence.

“His name’s Colin, from the local orphanage,” a cop spoke up for him. “Caught him once snatching someone’s sandwich. Probably not a bad egg.”

I shook my head vehemently, “No, he’s bad news, a murderer!”

The police let go of Colin.

Colin scrambled to his feet, his lanky legs making his pants ride up above his ankles.

I saw the ghastly scars on his shins. They were reminiscent of burn marks from electrocution. Despite my fear that he’d keep killing, I followed him. He stopped beside Melody, his voice gravelly. “It’s you…”

Melody looked at the man in shock, her whole body quaking.

I was equally stunned. Did Colin know Melody had deliberately lured me to him?

to disturb you so late,” the leading cop, Robin Lancaster, apologized and handed Dexter his

took the card,

up. “Check out Dexter. His connection to Phoebe is not as simple as it seems. And

figure it out, Robin?”

on her chest or a birthmark

cop gulped, shocked. “He looks

let’s dig deeper!”

didn’t go back with Dexter because I couldn’t bear to see him and Melody again.

followed Colin instead, watching him limp away and hoping to

dragged his injured leg to an abandoned orphanage and deftly climbed inside.

as I scanned

Chapter B

brought me here and then killed me. This orphanage was the initial

stuck close to Colin, hoping to find where my

didn’t head to the scene of the murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit dormitory and curled up in a

lived here, in this

long time without finding the basement where

police had been searching

“Bang!”

suddenly rammed open