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.

the

exhaled in

It wasn’t me.

beginning to burn with unshed tears. Then, like a man possessed, he ran out of

was in the throes of

he unknowingly be the one behind all these killings?

not Phoebe.” Robin dropped the stick and dialed the station, his call quickly followed

on the ground and

“Phoebe… where’s Phoebe?”

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to look at the body, yet

police and coroners arrived at the scene together. By the time Robin went out to find Colin, there was no trace

of defeat and

this cycle of murder finally end?

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 scene. “The

analysis, I laughed weakly. How could it have only been ten

I snapped my head up,

it be… there was more than one

Or were there two individuals acting together, yet with eerily

similar methods?

the station, Robin immediately ordered a

don’t spook him. Bring him back safely.” He ordered.

but not the

shivering.

leaning on her shoulder.