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

Caldwell gave you her

you her best friend. I can’t let

Fitzgerald? Phoebe grew up with you,

how grateful

and his knuckles whitened, revealing his strained

I’m curious,” I pressed, adopting a detached perspective on his relationship with Phoebe. “Phoebe loved you so much. How could you be

silent, just driving

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in a

I didn’t catch

trembled. “She loved someone else. She was with

and anger overtook me.

he was still trying to

even human?

wanted to give her freedom yet keep her close. I knew she’d leave eventually…” His voice trailed off,

is really cheap. When you first said you liked her, she foolishly loved

mix of emotions as he glanced at me. “Did she tell you she loved me for ten years?”

frowned, not wanting to engage with Dexter any

his stare intense but not

old neighborhood, Dexter parked as well, and we followed

carrying some food, entered an old house and knocked

I waited to see who Eric

cracked open, and a

scars

inside was the same murderer I’d seen

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while, he spoke in a lowered voice.