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?

Sorry to disturb you so late,” the leading cop, Robin Lancaster,

took the card, and

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

out, Robin?”

you know if your sister has a mole on her chest or

gulped,

dig deeper!”

Dexter because I couldn’t

instead, watching him limp away and hoping to find my own

dragged his injured leg to an abandoned orphanage and

followed, my breath quickening as I scanned the surroundings.

Chapter B

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

hoping to find where my body was hidden.

he didn’t head to the scene of the murder. Instead, he entered a decrepit dormitory and curled up in a corner of a

here, in this run–down orphanage.

a long time without finding the basement where

searching for so long

“Bang!”

metal gate was suddenly rammed open by a car.

to eye those uninvited guests.