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,

took the card, and left

“Check out Dexter. His connection to Phoebe is not as

figure it out,

if your sister has a mole on her chest or a birthmark on

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

let’s dig

I couldn’t bear

Colin instead, watching him limp away and hoping to find my own

leg to an abandoned orphanage and

as I scanned

Chapter B

where I’d met my end! He was the one who had brought me here and then killed me. This orphanage was the initial

to Colin, hoping to find where my

of the murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit dormitory and

lived here, in this run–down

without finding the basement where the murders and

had been searching

“Bang!”

orphanage’s metal gate was suddenly rammed open by a car.