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?

related to Phoebe. Sorry to disturb you so late,” the leading cop, Robin Lancaster, apologized and handed Dexter his card.

huffed, took the card, and left with Melody.

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

out, Robin?”

a mole on her chest or a birthmark on

cop gulped, shocked.

dig

back with Dexter because I couldn’t bear

followed Colin instead, watching him limp away and

his injured leg to an abandoned orphanage and

quickening as I scanned the

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

Colin, hoping to find where

head to the scene of the murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit

he lived here, in this run–down

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

wonder the police had been searching for so

“Bang!”

suddenly