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.

breath, I mustered the

seeing the face of the corpse, Robin exhaled in

It wasn’t me.

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

Colin in horror, unsure if he was in the throes of a psychotic break, the kind

unknowingly be the one behind all these killings?

the stick and dialed the station, his call quickly followed by the wail of

collapsed on the ground and suddenly broke down in sobs.

“Phoebe… where’s Phoebe?”

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scared to look at the body, yet

time Robin went out to find Colin, there was no

sense of defeat and simply

cycle of murder finally end?

appears to be around twenty–three years 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 scene. “The victim has no ear piercings; the earring was forced through while she was still

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

I snapped my head up, my whole body

was more than

an accomplice? Or were there two individuals acting together, yet with

similar methods?

Robin immediately

but don’t spook him. Bring him back

old orphanage, but not the exact location,” Stella said. She was

shivering.

her, leaning on her shoulder.