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.

just putting on a show? Clearly, I heard their laughter and horseplay through

had also said over the monitor that Phoebe was the kind of woman even a creep wouldn’t look

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

in 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 less confident.

do you?” Dexter went white as a

stepped back and leaned against

stood there watching Dexter. Desolation washed

pushed Melody down the stairs, and she’d poison Melody for her own selfish gains. If someone like that is gone,

Dexter’s crew liked me; I always knew that. They all adored Melody.

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but their disrespect, their jokes,

so naturally, they all

his brows, giving Hank a dark,

me once in the Fitzgerald family’s back garden. But he didn’t succeed;

said even

nobody would believe me, he spread rumors and slandered me among Dexter’s circle of friends, all to fear the day

already tarnished reputation, and even if I spoke out, no one