Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 49

In the darkness, echoes of voices haunted the fringes of my fading consciousness.

I could hear Stella’s sobbing, Robin’s urgent calls, and the doctor’s strained pleas.

“Phoebe, Phoebe, hang on…”

“Phoebe!”

“Phoebe!”

“She’s been holding on too long, and we found her too late. If only, if only a day earlier… just one more day, she might have made it.” The doctor’s voice was hoarse with emotion, eyes glistening with unshed tears. “She was pregnant.”

As an onlooker to my own tragedy, it seemed impossible to comprehend what I had endured these past days.

“How desperate she must have felt,” Cory said, turning away, unable to face the truth. “If we’d found her sooner… Now a life inside her is gone too! That monster!”

“To think she was tortured so, her fingers broken to appear more delicate, her blood tainted with a cocktail of drugs, her skin paler than a porcelain doll. That maniac displayed her like artwork in a glass case.” The female officer wept openly, looking away, unable to bear the sight.

Dexter sat on the floor, breath ragged, his eyes bloodshot as if he’d lost his mind. “She can’t be dead. She won’t die… she’s lying! She’s tricking me! She won’t die! Didn’t she want me to marry her? I will! Come back, Phoebe, don’t die!”

Melody hadn’t interfered with the police investigation, Phoebe wouldn’t be dead, she wouldn’t!” Stella

intervene, but Robin

too, harbored resentment

still a chance for me

a day sooner…” Stella’s cries were a lament, her strength failing as she

only a day sooner.

killed her, so why don’t you die, Dexter? Go to hell.”

suddenly burst out, in denial of the lifeless form

hadn’t he always wished me dead? And now that

a lead. Phoebe’s parents

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Chapter 49

same day, there was a fire at the orphanage, many perished.” A policeman burst into the basement, holding a

“Orphanage…”

car crash scene appeared in my mind. I saw the figure desperately

Why

clear. It wasn’t Dexter.

the memory of that murderer

it Dexter who saved me?

accident… had I truly lost so much of my memory?