Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 171

Eric peered warily down the alley’s end. “Who’s there?”

Startled, I spun around to hide but was swiftly muffled and dragged into a nearby shop. “I told you, you’ll regret tailing Caleb,” the voice behind me was unmistakably Dexter’s.

1 paused, furrowing my brows as I eyed him with suspicion. “Mr. Fitzgerald, got time to kill?”

“Just happened to be passing by,” Dexter quipped, reaching for a mango–flavored lollipop from the store’s shelf for me.

He must have mistaken me for Phoebe. He knew Phoebe was prone to sugar lows, hence the lollipop.

But it was laughable, really. He didn’t even know Phoebe was allergic to mangoes.

“Who do you think I am?” I asked, voice heavy with caution.

Dexter remained silent.

I scoffed. “Don’t you know Phoebe Caldwell is allergic to mangoes?”

I made no move to take the lollipop from him, looking to leave instead.

Dexter, frozen, suddenly moved to grab my wrist. “I told you to divorce Caleb for your own good.”

With an air of urgency, he pulled me into his car.

Soon after, Eric emerged and got into his vehicle.

Dexter drove off, tailing Eric’s car.

“The Langleys have always cleaned up after Caleb. He’s been a troublemaker for years, and it’s always Eric who sorts it out. His meeting with today is just more of the same,” Dexter said with a heavy tone. “Since

you her house

she must consider you her best friend.

are we to each other, Mr. Fitzgerald? Phoebe grew

grateful

the steering wheel tightened, and his

adopting a detached perspective on his relationship with Phoebe. “Phoebe loved you so much. How could you be so cruel to her? Even a dog grows

remained silent, just driving and following Eric.

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while, he spoke in a lowered voice. “I… loved her.”

didn’t catch

loved someone else. She was with me out of gratitude, though

of shock and anger

and he was still trying to

he even human?

she’d leave eventually…” His voice trailed off, the

Dexter’s words absurd and hypocritical. “Your love is really cheap. When you first said you liked her, she

he glanced at me. “Did she

wanting to engage

stare intense but not pressing

in an old neighborhood, Dexter parked as well, and we followed Eric discreetly.

food, entered an old house and knocked on the door.

waited to see who Eric was

door cracked open, and

bore scars of

person inside was the same murderer I’d

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he spoke in a lowered