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.

I mustered the courage to move forward with

exhaled in relief, but my soul tightened even more.

It wasn’t me.

tears. Then, like a man possessed, he ran out of the dorm and screamed to the void, “Get out… get the hell out…”

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

he unknowingly be the one behind all these

Phoebe.” Robin dropped the stick and dialed the station,

ground and

“Phoebe… where’s Phoebe?”

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scared to look at the body, yet relieved it

the scene together. By the time Robin went out to find Colin, there was no trace of him

gave up fighting the sense of defeat

would this cycle of murder finally

in no more than ten minutes. And she seems to have been calm at the time of death, which might be caused

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

as I snapped my head up, my whole body

be… there was more than

were there two individuals acting together, yet with eerily

similar methods?

police back to the station, Robin

him. Bring him back safely.” He

not the exact location,”

shivering.

her, leaning