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.

I cried,

down the stairs like a witch. I gave you that chance and you squandered it.

have to say it before you’ll believe me? Why won’t you believe me?” I sobbed, begging for his trust and

in the shed, “Reflect on your

the door,

one in the

know how long I cried; I

of the dark ever since our parents passed away. Yet he chose this dark, confined

most to threaten me. He was exploiting his hold over me,

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worse, and I lay against the clutter,

so compassionate as to tell Halley, I might have died in that shed that

The next morning.

do that you locked her in the

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

feeling groggy while listening to Dexter