Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 140

My soul quaked with a deep–rooted fear of the orphanage, I was terrified because it was here that I had died.

Thankfully, when Eric took me, we went to the residential wing on the eastern side of the orphanage.

“Maybe the murderer just wanted to scare Colin and Carter, but they didn’t anticipate the fire getting out of hand. The whole dormitory was engulfed. That year, nineteen kids died in the orphanage. Nineteen, apart from Colin and Carter, mostly little seven or eight–year–olds.”

I knew that Colin and Carter were just back for some annual celebration, a coming–of–age ceremony for the kids around their age who had been adopted out.

And those who perished were the ones left behind, the ones never chosen by a family. Such innocent lives were lost.

“We found him in a room choked with thick smoke, gasping for air.” Eric pushed open the charred door; its hinges creaked in protest.

I stood rigid at the doorway, trembling uncontrollably with fear I couldn’t explain.

The room was sparse, beds reduced to mere frames, walls blackened by the heavy smoke.

marks of desperation

primal struggle to survive.

on the floor,

despair Colin and Carter must have experienced, locked in that

against a door that wouldn’t budge, their bodies seared

silently of their final, desperate

sooner?” I choked out, my heart sinking into that pit of despair. “That day, the Langley family faced a great tragedy as well. On the day of the orphanage fire, Mr. Ethan, Mr. Brendan’s most favored son and heir to the Langley Group, died in a car accident along with his wife and another son. Mr. Brendan was lost in grief, and the Langley family was shrouded in sorrow. Everyone forgot that Mr. Caleb never returned from the orphanage.”

rimmed with red. “When Mr. Caleb woke up, he went mad. He was in a frenzy, Insisted on returning to the orphanage, and refused to leave with anyone,

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which, with patient guidance and support from

gone

of Mr. Samuel, Mr. Brendan worried about the scandal might bring to the Langley family and

Eric, my eyes wide with

locked away