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?

any information related to Phoebe. Sorry to disturb

the card, and left with

Dexter. His connection to Phoebe is not as

it out, Robin?” another officer asked.

your sister has a mole on her chest or a birthmark on

younger cop gulped,

let’s dig

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

followed Colin instead, watching him limp away and hoping to

leg to an

quickening as I scanned the

Chapter B

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

hoping to find where

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

here, in

the basement where the murders

been searching for so long without any

“Bang!”

gate was suddenly rammed open

cautiously stepped out to