Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 29

Dexter didn’t head home; instead, he found himsell wandering down Flare Alley and Tangle

Lane.

I had no clue what he was up to, just aimlessly trailing behind him.

Perhaps, I was too eager to witness the look on his face when he confronted the truth.

Would it be regret, relief, or would he defend Melody at that very moment?

“Dexter, did you ever care for me, even the slightest? When you were tormenting me, what were you thinking? A mix of disgust and your unrestrained demand?” I stood behind Dexter, repeating my questions over and over.

I knew full well he couldn’t hear me, yet I stubbornly sought a resolution, an answer.

“Dexter… we really couldn’t find Phoebe. The cops said it’s a fact that we had Phoebe over on the 13th and 14th, and we all admitted to it. But they’re saying the surveillance footage shows Phoebe showing up again on the 15th, heading down Tangle Lane. I saw the tape myself, Phoebe was definitely there, all by herself.”

Dexter’s buddy had arrived with the investigation updates.

watched the two of them with a sarcastic smirk. Were they truly clueless, or just putting on a show?

monitor that Phoebe was the kind

she doing there all alone on the 15th?” Dexter’s face was

on a janitor during the window of Phoebe’s disappearance. There was just this janitor hauling a big trash bin out; no sign of Phoebe…” His friend’s voice trailed off, less and

went white as a sheet, probably starting to panic. “Don’t talk

and leaned against the

there watching Dexter.

the

always knew that.

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Chapter 29

well aware that Melody might have the knack to convince these guys of her innocence, but

loathed me, so naturally, they all

his brows, giving Hank a

had tried to assault me once in the Fitzgerald family’s back garden. But he didn’t succeed; I managed

about that day. He said even if I spoke up, no one would believe

ensure nobody would believe me, he spread rumors and slandered me among Dexter’s circle of friends,

would just be another stain on my already tarnished reputation,