Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 26

Stella cowered behind Robin, too terrified to look.

Colin was the first to walk in. He was limping slowly, each step seeming to take an eternity.

Maybe it was just my imagination, but I felt he was shaking. I couldn’t tell if this trembling was out of fear or excitement.

“Phoebe…” His voice was a hoarse and grating rasp, the ruin of his vocals let out a suffocating

timbre.

“Phoebe?” Robin echoed, frowning as he turned on his phone’s flashlight.

“Thud!”

A dull sound as the woman who had been standing slumped straight onto the floor.

Robin’s expression darkened. He swiftly grabbed a stick nearby, holding it defensively as he scanned the area.

What lay before them was a body.

“Ah!” Stella, atter all was just a med student. Even with a tough exterior, she just never saw a real dead body. She screamed, covering her eyes and crouching down.

It took her a moment to lower her hands. She was crying as she asked Robin, “Robin… my legs have gone numb. I can’t look. Please check for me. Please see if it’s Phoebe…”

She didn’t dare confirm if the body was me.

And honestly, neither did I dare look.

mustered the courage

exhaled in relief, but my soul tightened

It wasn’t me.

to the ground. His gaze flickered wildly, his eyes beginning to burn with unshed tears. Then, like a man possessed, he ran out of the dorm and screamed to

he was in the throes of a psychotic break, the kind with an alternate

he unknowingly be the one behind all these

Robin dropped the stick and dialed the station,

the ground and suddenly broke down in

“Phoebe… where’s Phoebe?”

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the body, yet relieved it wasn’t

By the time Robin went out to find Colin, there was no trace

fighting the sense of defeat and simply

of murder finally end?

old. Her skin is still elastic, probably dead in no more than ten minutes. And she seems to have been calm at the time of death, which might be caused by drug effects,” the coroner briefly analyzed

the coroner’s analysis, I laughed weakly. How could it have only been ten minutes? It took us half an hour just

I snapped my head up, my whole body was shaking.

be… there was more than

accomplice? Or were there two individuals

similar methods?

to the station, Robin immediately ordered a

Bring him back safely.”

lunatic’s behavior… he knew there was a body at the old orphanage, but not the exact location,” Stella said. She was draped in a blanket, clutching a mug of hot

shivering.

her, leaning