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?

any information related to Phoebe. Sorry to disturb you so late,” the leading cop, Robin Lancaster, apologized and

card, and left

connection to Phoebe is not as simple

it out, Robin?” another officer asked.

has a mole on her chest or a birthmark on her

younger cop gulped, shocked. “He looks so… normal.”

dig deeper!”

Dexter because I couldn’t bear to see him

away and hoping to find my own

leg to an abandoned orphanage and

quickening as I scanned

Chapter B

I’d met my end! He was the one who had brought me here

stuck close to Colin, hoping to find where my body was

head to the scene of the murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit dormitory and curled up in a

clear he lived here, in this run–down orphanage.

time without finding the basement where the murders and my death took

police had been searching for so long without any success.

“Bang!”

suddenly rammed