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

took the card,

His connection to Phoebe is not as simple as it seems. And

it out, Robin?” another

on her chest or

cop gulped, shocked. “He

dig

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

watching him limp away and hoping to

an abandoned

breath quickening as I

Chapter B

here and then killed me. This orphanage was

to find where my body was hidden.

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

lived here,

time without finding the basement

the police had been searching for

“Bang!”

orphanage’s metal gate was suddenly rammed

to eye those uninvited guests.