Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 190

I stumbled backward as Zoe lunged at me with a force I hadn’t anticipated. She pushed me so hard that I lost my footing and toppled over.

My head struck the edge of Zoe’s footstool, and darkness crept into the edges of my vision.

“It’s all your fault, you killed them! You stole Colin away from Carter, and then you just threw him away. You’re so horrible.” Zoe wailed, her voice a haunting echo in my dazed state.

Memories, long buried under layers of dust in my mind, began to resurface.

“Hi, I’m Phoebe Caldwell. What’s your name?”

“Are you hurt?”

In the grassy field behind the orphanage, a frail, biracial boy with bruises all over cowered in a

corner.

A little girl in a red dress spotted him and reached into her tiny purse to pull out a band–aid. “Does it hurt?” she asked.

The boy shook his head, looking lost.

“Half–breed, blue eyes! Never cries, never laughs, never feels pain!”

A gaggle of orphans laughed and jeered, pelting Colin with stones. They taunted him for being a half–breed because of his strikingly beautiful eyes that shone like stars.

half–breed?” the girl in the red dress stood defiantly in front of the boy. scooping up stones from the ground. “If you bullies don’t stop,

you new here? Don’t you know

at her dress; it’s

“It’s new!”

her dress, it becomes

commanding the few boys

girl stood rooted to the spot,

on one of the attackers, slamming it down on the bully’s head

in the red dress screamed for her

distance, and the

was me as a

Chapter 190

was my dad, along with

solitary confinement, ordered by the head to reflect on

us said they liked my dress, so my dad promised to bring each of them one

left, and as we walked

was Colin, with those eyes I could never

Colin long before I thought I did. But I had forgotten that

need to focus on my college entrance exams. After graduation, we can be together,

wait

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”