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?

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

the card,

His connection to Phoebe is not as simple as it seems. And also check out Melody.”

it out,

sister has a mole on her chest or

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

dig

didn’t go back with Dexter because I couldn’t bear to

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

his injured leg to an

followed, my breath quickening as I scanned

Chapter B

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

to Colin, hoping to find where

Instead, he entered a decrepit dormitory and curled up in a corner

lived here, in

the orphanage for a long time without finding the basement

police had been searching for so long without

“Bang!”

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

to eye