Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 43

When Melody had first mentioned that a killer was on her tail, she had no qualms about sending me in her stead to lure the murderer out.

Melody was selfish, and it was clear as day to everyone. Everyone, that is, except Dexter..

Robin gave Dexter a meaningful look. Was he really that naive? Or was there something her wasn’t sharing?

“Sorry… I, I don’t have a red dress anymore,” Melody stammered, her reluctance to help obvious. She just didn’t want to give the cops anything to go on.

Dexter paused, confused. “But I thought…”

He remembered the red dress he had bought for her, one that she had claimed to adore.

“That one… it got ruined in the wash. The colors bled so I threw it out,” Melody faltered.

Dexter didn’t press further.

Stella’s eyes were rimmed with red, anger boiling within her as she confronted Dexter. “Tell me the brand and style of the dress, and I’ll go buy it myself.”

After a long silence, Dexter finally spoke. “It’s from L&Y’s fall collection, the only long red dress they had.”

Hearing Dexter’s words, my heart ached anew. When I was eighteen, I had asked him for a dress as a gift, admitting my fondness for L&Y’s design aesthetic.

agreed, but year after year, the dresses he bought were never for me.

Dexter, too exasperated to argue.

Stella out, Robin frowned. “There’s something

barely held herself together as she

elevator.

bear to think what Phoebe might be going through.

get the dress, then you’ll leave this hotel pretending to be Melody. You can trust me; I’ll keep you safe.”

“We have to

protect her,” I muttered incessantly, knowing full well Robin couldn’t hear me but unable to stop myself. “You just have

of dress as Melody,

anxious

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she’d encounter

first stopped at a bar, drinking until she was visibly intoxicated, her

mess.

sake of

worry. “Stella, don’t

to

police had taken every precaution to ensure Stella’s

out alone. Stella made her way down Tangle Lane, just outside

Click.