Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 10

I struggled fiercely and cried for help. I was nearly swallowed by desperation.

“Enough already!” Finally, Dexter kicked Kyle aside.

I knew how he loathed anyone touching his stul!. He didn’t care about me, but since he had touched me, he considered as his cheapest of possessions.

I fell to the ground in a heap, hugging my clothes tightly around me.

Dexter seemed to lose his interest.

“You all get the hell out!” his said with an icy tone.

Kyle and the others knew to read the room. Seeing Dexter pissed off, they all scrambled up and left.

Now it was just me and him in the room.

He stood up, kicking me in disgust. “I heard you met with Ryder today. Are you that easy? Are you throwing yourself at him to make him sleep with you?”

Ryder had been my college senior who had been pursuing me for years, a genuinely good guy.

study abroad too. He wanted me to think it over, to give him an answer once I’d decided. Even if I didn’t like him, it was okay, he said.

tempted. Dexter didn’t love me: I knew he’d never

said I’d think about it, because at that moment, I was still fantasizing that maybe, after all these years, I could earn a sliver

was that night that pushed me into despair and made up my

did he touch

hugged myself tighter, not answering.

to you!” He kicked the coffee table in a frenzy,

wits, I shook my head through tears.

him again, got it?” He grabbed my hair, threatening

he wasn’t done with

disgust, and

about marrying you. It was Hailey. She said there was an engagement, and asked

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Chapter 10

I desperately tried

been torn open by Kyle, it now hung off my shoulders and exposed my bare skin. I was drenched, and

up a bottle from the table and poured it over my head. “You’re so filthy.

that I owed him, and