Chapter 162

The kids huddled in the alleyway were a patchwork of misfortune—some with a single arm as if shaped by nature’s unforgiving hand, others mute or blind since birth.

“I’ve brought you guys some grub,” Abdul declared with a maturity beyond his years while distributing food.

I was taken aback.

Why weren’t these children in foster care? The system had surely improved by now

“Abdul, where did you get the food?” a little girl asked in delight.

Abdul swelled with pride, “Miss Foebe snagged it for us, but it’s our secret, okay? If you see her, just play it cool, like you don’t know her, got it?”

Hiding by the doorway, my heart raced with anxiety but ached even more with sorrow.

These kids… they seemed to hold Foebe in high regard.

What exactly was her connection to them?

out of the hospital? Is

down beside him. “With Foebe around, Grandma’s gotta make it.”

grandmother? The same lady Zack Larson used as a bargaining

rebirth, I hadn’t once visited

wasn’t that I didn’t want to;

are often the first to notice the slightest changes in their

Foebe, and her grandmother would surely see through me, no matter the lies I

now, I might just have to bite

to both Foebe and her grandmother, and Abdul’s brother got ties to the murderer. It was as if

one could escape

hospital, but a black sedan pulled up beside me. The window rolled down to reveal Dexter in the

he tracking

literally lost his

Chapter 162

He’d cornered me into meeting him at the office.

he just twiddling his

cool, his voice icy, “Get

to leave.

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