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.

I could’ve been a bit earlier…”

The doctor had said even a day earlier could have given

“Bang!”

with the wall, and blood trickled from

but I was at a loss for

way to the

stood by the

Robin offered one

his head,

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 the source?”

root of this evil?

mid–light, and he looked up sharply at Colin.

was reminding him that they’d been on the wrong

the victims. But understanding

murderer had stumbled with Melody, they needed to seize this chance, follow the trail, and

the true source of evil….

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

inexplicable panic. Melody had been rattled. She had been a nervous wreck until they sedated her.

I watched her accusing

but

wanted her to suffer the most excruciating pain life could offer, and this was nowhere

or nine. He looked frail with a bloody nose that he’d wiped

I please have my brother back?” the boy approached Robin, pleading

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