Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 30

“You’re nothing but a ball and chain, so stop hanging around my cousin.”

It was my freshman year at college, and Hank and I were classmates. We weren’t in the same faculty, but we shared the newbie status. I’ve always been a softie, so I let his comment–slide without a fuss.

But Hank was relentless. “Phoebe, why so high and mighty every single day? You’re just a nobody but a little tramp kept by the Fitzgerald family. My cousin’s just keeping you warm at night, and do why you think you’re some kind of lady?”

The people around Hank snickered, “Sure, she’s a lady. But she’s ‘Lady Escort“.”

I felt my face flush with humiliation, the sting of tears threatening to show.

Hank, with his entourage, circled me and spewed insults.

Desperate to escape, I turned and saw Dexter standing nearby, his face stormy.

I looked at him and pleaded for help.

But it was the first time he looked at me with such cold indifference; his gaze was filled with disgust before he turned and walked away.

Because he did nothing, Hank grew bolder in his harassment.

Then, on a crisp autumn day during my twentieth year, at the birthday gala for Dexter’s mother, Hank found his moment and pinned me down in the shrubbery of the back garden.

have had a piece of you. Why not let me have a

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always let my cousin have all the fun. Let me in on

him off, but he was

scream, but his hand

kill you.” He threatened.

afraid to die, but he was

you in out of charity, and you bite the hand that feeds you, thinking you can trap him with some marriage contract.” Hank sneered. He continued as he watched me

eyes were filled with

surrendered, he loosened his grip on my wrists and started

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from the ground and

at me, pain flashing in

curled up and hid in the garden for a long time. Until the autumn rain soaked me to the bone in

I realized I had to

needed to escape. I had to

of the Fitzgeralds. I would be

and scholarships, but no matter how hard I tried, it was never enough to counteract the

was with the campus belle,

I was the vile woman who plotted against her,

claiming I threw myself at