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?

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

huffed, took the card, and left

away, Robin spoke up. “Check out Dexter. His connection to Phoebe is not as

did you figure it out, Robin?” another officer

if your sister has a mole on

gulped,

let’s dig deeper!”

I couldn’t bear to

away and hoping to find my own body.

to an abandoned orphanage and deftly climbed

as I scanned the surroundings.

Chapter B

where I’d met my end! He was the one who had brought me here and then killed me. This orphanage was the initial

to Colin, hoping to find where my body

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

here,

orphanage for a long time without finding the basement where the murders and

the police had been searching for so

“Bang!”

orphanage’s metal gate was suddenly rammed open

stepped out to