Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 157

My heart was suddenly in a vice grip of fear.

Could he have slipped away while I was asleep?

In that case, could he be… involved in this recent spate of murders?

I shot out of bed, threw on my clothes, and dashed out of the hotel room to the front desk.

“Hi, did you happen to see my husband leave the hotel?” I asked.

The young clerk shook her head, “I’m sorry, it’s been so busy…”

“He’s half–and–half, a really handsome man,” I said, trying to jog her memory.

Her mouth cracked open, “Oh, you mean that handsome dude? He should have been…“.

She quickly pulled out her phone and whispered, “He was so good–looking that I sneakily took a photo and posted it on Facebook.”

“He left around midnight,” she said with certainty.

The time stamp on her Facebook post read 12:03 AM.

He had left just as I

morning. He had had more than enough time to do

out of the hotel, and when I looked around with a twirl of emotions,

I supposed to do if Colin was really

with a messy head, my phone rang.

It was Robin.

afraid the police had caught Colin at the crime scene, or that another murder

said, steadying

Amber River Road police station,” Robin

police station?”

on him? Why let him go out in the middle of the

the cops there weren’t old buddies of

a cab, puzzled.

car, and the icing on the cake, he rallied a pack

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was practically grinding his teeth, “Do you get that

bombarded with questions.

the middle of the night? He also smashed his car and set dogs on people?” I needed a

reason he had insisted I stay in a hotel last night–to have

the Langley estate, probably surveilling or planning something against you,” Robin continued with a sigh. “They got away, so let’s call it self–defense