Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 14

“Don’t push your luck, Dexter!” Ryder stepped forward, gripping Dexter’s collar with a firm hand. I was worried things might escalate to blows, so I stepped in front of Ryder, “Thanks, Ryder, but you should go. I’ll get in touch some other time.”

Ryder, not wanting to make things hard for me, shot Dexter a furious glance, “Phoebe, sort out the stuff we talked about ASAP. Stay away from this guy as far as you can.”

I nodded, “Will do.”

Ryder drove off, and I stood there, not looking back..

“Phoebe, have I been too nice to you lately?” Dexter stepped closer, grabbing my wrist and dragging me toward the garden shed.

I looked at him with fear, unsure of his intentions.

“Didn’t I tell you to stay away from Ryder? Did my words just go in one ear and out the other?” Dexter’s voice was laced with anger.

“I’ll talk to Hailey to call off our engagement. I’ll leave Sea City,” I was so scared that I stepped back and watched him nervously.

“Oh, thinking of running away? Phoebe, you’ve made a mistake and there’s a price to pay. You think you can just leave and that’s atonement?” Dexter sneered.

to leave,” I cried,

your chance to leave before you pushed Melody down the stairs like a witch. I gave you that chance and you squandered it. Now it’s

I have to say it before you’ll believe

indifferent, his eyes filled only with rage. He snatched my phone and locked me in the shed, “Reflect on your actions in here. When you agree to come to the hospital and apologize to Melody, I might let you

crying, pounding on the door, begging Dexter to let me out.

refused, and no one in the Fitzgerald family dared to

cried; I just huddled in a corner, afraid.

was broken, and Dexter knew I’d been afraid of the dark ever since our parents passed away. Yet he chose this dark, confined space to

that, using what he knew scared me the most to threaten me. He was exploiting

Chapter 14

worse, and I lay against the clutter, not knowing how long I’d

housekeeper hadn’t been so compassionate as to tell Halley, I might have died in that shed that night.

The next morning.

did Phoebe do that you locked her in the shed?”

and she’s just out of danger!” Dexter’s voice barely contained his fury. “Mom, it’s your coddling that spoiled her. She’ll become lawless

in bed, feeling groggy while listening to Dexter and Hailey argue