Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 132

I had no choice but to pin everything on the murderer, to spur the cops into action.

It dawned on me that I really had to lay low from now on, not rushing to prove who I really was. I needed to gently nudge the investigation forward under the quise of being Phoebe’s friend.

It had claimed to be Phoebe’s friend from the get–go, maybe Stella and Robin wouldn’t have been so damn suspicious of me.

I’d been too careless; that was clear.

“She’s lying!” Melody squirmed in her attempt to struggle free.

I gave Melody a meaningful look. “Without proof, I’m going to sue you for slander.”

Melody seemed to falter. Her goal wasn’t really to get me locked up but to keep Dexter away from me. Clearly, she had accomplished that.

“The Langleys can afford a good lawyer,” Caleb said, gripping my hand firmly: his gaze on Melody was fierce, murderous even.

alone in the hospital

clasped hands, his knuckles were white, and the veins on the back of his scarred hand stood out as if

held my hand tightly as if

be a lie… but I still couldn’t bring myself

bear an heir. I thought he might suspect me of not being the real Phoebe like Melody suggested – Pretending to be Phoebe,

around Phoebe’s place on the surveillance footage,” Stella admitted, looking up at

you tell

trust Foebe because she’s right–Phoebe wouldn’t share the

was saying, “I’m choosing to trust you,

It wasn’t manslaughter; it was premeditated murder. You had a motive; you wanted Dexter, believing Phoebe would snatch him away because Dexter and Phoebe’s

out, his voice laden with anger.

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scared that I’d

at him before continuing. “You claim Phoebe was just your sister, but unfortunately for you, she was the fiancée your mother Hailey picked out. Because of Phoebe, Hailey never accepted Melody and wouldn’t let her into the family easily. So, to marry into the Fitzgerald family. Melody had

Phoebe.