Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 175

I sat in that room, staring at the screen where Colin’s face was etched with desperation.

I knew that when provoked, Colin would go berserk and turn to self–harm – his twisted way of punishing himself was to inflict pain upon his own flesh.

Within those four walls, Colin refused to respond to the doctor’s queries. Instead, he banged his head against the wall with force as if to shock himself into tranquility.

“You did it, didn’t you? You killed Phoebe. You locked her in a glass cabinet. I remember back in the mental institution, how you used to hoard those little dead critters you were so fond of. You were afraid that kitten would leave you, so you snuffed out its life, turned it into a specimen. and stashed it in your so–called safe place. The bird, too.” The doctor pressed on relentlessly.

He was determined to wring the truth out of Colin.

“You were obsessed with Phoebe, but she was never yours to claim. She fell for Dexter, and that’s why you had to eliminate her, isn’t it? So she’d be yours forever, encased in that glass. cabinet. Am I right?”

The doctor’s voice boomed through the room.

Colin’s trembling frame stiffened, and for a moment, he locked eyes with the doctor, his forehead smeared with blood from his self–inflicted wounds.

I knew Colin was on the brink; the walls were replaying his tormented past, a hell he had never forgotten.

didn’t let up, not for

me go.” I glared at Dexter, my eyes rimmed

about?” Dexter seemed to lose his composure, pointing at the screen for me to see. “He ends up killing everything

to Lamont, who persisted in tormenting Colin, pushing him to confess to being

of them.

My voice

winced and averted his gaze as if in pain, staring back at the screen. He needed to hear Colin admit to

moment Dexter was distracted, I bit through the restraint on my wrist, grabbed a stick from the ground, and swung it at Dexter’s

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first time striking someone, and fear mixed

He fell to the floor, his hand coming away

back and

the

it, relentless. “You’ve been fixated on Phoebe for years, haven’t you? Even in the mental institution, you’d call out her name in

darkened, and he

stance.

a sudden move,