Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

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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

her

you… she must consider you her best friend. I

What are we to each other, Mr. Fitzgerald? Phoebe grew up with you, and

grateful I

grip on the steering wheel tightened, and

loved you so much. How could you be so cruel to her? Even a dog grows on you, right?”

silent, just driving and

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

I didn’t

loved her deeply.” His voice trembled. “She loved someone else. She was with me out of gratitude,

and anger overtook me.

was gone, and he was still trying to tarnish me!

even

she’d leave eventually…” His voice trailed off, the unspoken truth hanging in the air – Phoebe was

cheap. When you

as he glanced at me. “Did she tell you she loved me for

to engage with Dexter any

hesitated, his stare intense but not

Eric stopped his car in an old neighborhood, Dexter parked

food, entered an old house and knocked on the

waited to see who

cracked open, and a hand

hand bore scars of

peaking. That person inside was the same murderer

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a while, he spoke in a