Chapter 160

Robin had been pushed to the brink as well. Since the first murder rippled through the city, he’d been lucky to snatch three hours of sleep each night.

The murderer was taunting him, the entire police force, and everyone.

In Robin’s eyes, no matter the murderer’s motives, the fact that they’d snuffed out so many lives meant they deserved to die.

The boy was being taken away, and a wave of unexpected loss hit me as I leaned back. against the wall.

Cory dragged the boy past me. Our eyes met. He opened his mouth as if trying to tell me something.

I frowned, utterly perplexed by the boy.

Was he talking to me?

What was he trying to say?

Did I…. know the boy?

“This kid… must’ve been put up to it, right?” I muttered under my breath.

Robin slumped against the wall and thumped his forehead with limp fists. He looked genuinely tormented.

As long as the murderer remained at large, people would keep dying, and Robin was wrestling with guilt, with self–blame.

could’ve been a bit earlier…” Robin muttered

had said even a day earlier could have given Phoebe a fighting chance to survive.

“Bang!”

collided with the wall, and blood trickled

forward to stop him, but I was at a

way to the designated smoking area, lighting

stood by the entrance,

Robin offered one to Colin.

shook his head, “Smoking

laugh escaped Robin. “Guess I’ll just have a few more to calm the nerves.” Colin spoke again, “If it’s so harmful, why do they even make them? Where’s

root of

and he looked up sharply at

been on

had been fixated on the murderer and on the victims. But understanding why the murderer murdered was the

had stumbled with Melody, they needed to seize this chance, follow

true source

was teasing the horizon, but the world was still shrouded in

eerily quiet, breeding an inexplicable panic.

watched her accusing me of mockery, of enjoying her

in it, but it didn’t sit well

to suffer the most excruciating pain life could offer, and this was nowhere near enough.

a boy of no more than eight or nine. He looked frail with a bloody nose that he’d wiped haphazardly across his face.

brother back?” the boy approached Robin, pleading through his

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