Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

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

had said even a day earlier could

“Bang!”

fist collided with the wall, and blood

to stop him, but I

made his way to the designated smoking area, lighting up a

and I stood by the entrance, enveloped

offered one

his head, “Smoking kills.”

to calm the nerves.” Colin spoke again, “If it’s so harmful,

root of this evil?

mid–light, and he looked up sharply at

they’d been on the wrong

the victims. But understanding why

Melody, they needed to seize this chance, follow the trail, and get to the source.

get the true source of

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

eerily quiet, breeding an inexplicable panic. Melody

room, I watched her accusing me of mockery, of

was mocking her, reveling in it, but it didn’t sit

her to suffer the most excruciating pain life could offer,

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

can I please have my brother back?”