Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 53

Colin’s hand was clearly injured, a sign of deliberate harm. He couldn’t use a fork, so he was clumsily holding his bowl between his palms. Hesitant at first, he finally set the bowl aside and retreated into a corner in silence.

I softened my expression and reached out to him. “Let me take a look at your hand.”

Colin was naturally guarded, but after a long pause, he gingerly extended his injured hand to me. Seizing the opportunity, I examined it closely from all angles, relieved to find no trace of the scarlet birthmark that belonged to the person who had tried to end my life.

Clearly, he wasn’t the one who killed me, but he was undoubtedly linked to the crime. If not the accomplice, then certainly a co–conspirator.

The serial killings, my parents‘ demise, the memories I’d lost after the car accident…

So many truths… elusively complex, yet seemingly within grasp.

What was the true story?

“Does it hurt?” I asked Colin, looking up to win his favor.

His response was quiet, his large, beautiful eyes reflecting a mix of innocence and intensity.

“Who did this to your fingers?” I couldn’t help but feel a chill at the sight of the deep, turned–out wounds on each of his fingertips.

twisted to treat him like this.

Colin said, nodding

the height.

with his fingers in such a state, and the burns

took a deep breath, anger rising within me. “Your wounds need treatment, or

If you want him to father an heir, at least let him get medical treatment! Are you even human?” I shouted at the door,

I pounded on the door in frustration, he finally spoke.

I blurted out without

Phoebe, my parents had died in a car crash,

just said that. I wish they’d die in a

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respond, but then he smiled. “Phoebe…”

turned to

open the door,” Colin said as he stood

I retreated from his approach, still

uncomfortable pause, he spoke

Of course I wanted out. I couldn’t stay trapped here forever, a mere breeding instrument. Only by getting out could I

you out once you have the child,” Colin said, picking up a pregnancy test from