Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 27

Stella’s glass shattered on the floor as she stood up abruptly. Even her lips were ashen when she asked, “What… who does this fingernail belong to?”

After asking. Stella started to lose control. Throwing her coat aside, she ran towards the door, frantic with the dual fears of me being dead or, alive and suffering.

Tears streaming down my face, I opened my arms wide to stop her, “Don’t go, Stella, please don’t go.”

She’s the only one I had.

Robin, quick as lightning, caught Stella by the wrist, “Calm down… maybe, maybe it’s just a red herring by the killer, maybe she’s still alive. Don’t be rash.”

Stella collapsed to the ground, clutching at Robin’s legs and sobbing uncontrollably, “Please, please find Phoebe quickly, I’m begging you… I can do it. I can lure him out; just please hurry.”

Stella’s cries echoed my own as we both begged the police to solve the case quickly.

Around one in the morning, Dexter arrived, looking worse for wear, probably called by Robin.

“We f

found another victim with Phoebe’s fingernail,” Robin said with detached calm.

brow, “So,

at Dexter, “Do you really think Phoebe is the type to pull off her own fingernail and place it on a corpse?”

curious too–had I become so

his fists, his voice low and

with my nails torn off, he

got no humanity?” I screamed at him, rushing forward to grab

the old me would never dare to do. But it was useless; it didn’t hurt him

and put rat poison in Melody’s cake… there’s nothing she can’t do.” Dexter’s eyes were bloodshot. It seemed that he was somehow losing control.

Phoebe! It was because you said Phoebe wasn’t missing that the police delayed the investigation until now. Don’t you know that? It’s all you!” Stella cried as she charged at him, her slap landing sharply on Dexter’s face. “If anything happens to

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call you a man!”

there,

you hitting Dexter?” Melody burst in, pushing

Stella, but Melody was so

but could only watch

Robin was quick to catch

do you have any evidence for your claims?” Robin asked,