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?

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

card,

them walk away, Robin spoke up. “Check out Dexter. His connection to Phoebe is not as

you figure it out, Robin?” another

you know if your sister has a mole on her chest or a birthmark on her pelvis?”

gulped, shocked.

dig

go back with Dexter because I couldn’t bear to see him

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

leg to an

my breath quickening as I scanned the surroundings.

Chapter B

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

close to Colin, hoping to find

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

clear he lived here, in this

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

the police had been searching for so long without

“Bang!”

was suddenly rammed open by a car.