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?

the hospital? Is she gonna

pull through,” Abdul murmured, slumping down beside him. “With Foebe

grandmother? The same lady Zack Larson used as a

pang of guilt struck me. Since my rebirth, I hadn’t once visited Foebe’s

didn’t want to; I

first to notice the slightest changes in their loved ones.

surely see through me, no matter

I might just have to bite the bullet and pay her

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

one could

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

tracking me?

lost his

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heck do you want?” He’d cornered me into meeting

he just twiddling his thumbs?

his voice icy,

to

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