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 so late,” the leading cop, Robin Lancaster, apologized and handed

card,

spoke up. “Check out Dexter. His connection to Phoebe is not as simple as it seems. And also check out

you figure it out, Robin?”

sister has a mole on her chest or a birthmark on

younger cop gulped, shocked. “He looks so…

let’s dig deeper!”

Dexter because I couldn’t bear

watching him limp away

to an abandoned orphanage and deftly climbed

quickening as I

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

to find where my body was

murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit

lived here,

without finding the

searching for so long without any success.

“Bang!”

was suddenly rammed open by