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?

contact us as soon as you have any information related to Phoebe. Sorry to disturb you

huffed, took the card,

connection to Phoebe is not as simple as it

did you figure it out, Robin?” another officer asked.

a mole on her chest or a

cop gulped,

let’s dig deeper!”

with Dexter because I couldn’t bear to

Colin instead, watching him limp away

injured leg to an abandoned orphanage and

quickening as I scanned the

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

close to Colin, hoping to find where my body

of the murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit dormitory and curled up in a corner of a cluttered room.

here, in this run–down

orphanage for a long time without finding the basement where the murders

wonder the police had been searching for

“Bang!”

gate was suddenly rammed open by a car.