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?

please contact us as soon as you have any information related to Phoebe. Sorry to disturb

took the card,

connection to Phoebe is

figure it out, Robin?” another officer

if your sister has a mole on her chest or a birthmark on her pelvis?”

younger cop gulped, shocked. “He looks

let’s dig

Dexter because I couldn’t bear to see

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

dragged his injured leg to an

my breath quickening as I scanned the surroundings.

Chapter B

who had brought me here and then killed me. This orphanage was the initial crime scene of

stuck close to Colin, hoping to find where my body

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

lived here,

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

police had been searching for so

“Bang!”

orphanage’s metal gate was suddenly rammed open by

stepped out to eye those uninvited guests.