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.

in front of the boy. scooping up stones from the ground. “If you bullies don’t stop, I’ll

new here? Don’t you know the rules of the orphanage?”

her dress; it’s so pretty.”

“It’s new!”

we take off her dress, it

coveted the red dress, commanding the few boys they

stood rooted to the spot, crying.

on one of the attackers,

the girl in the red

distance, and the faces

as a

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was my dad, along

was thrown into solitary confinement, ordered by the head

had bullied us said they liked my dress, so my dad

as we walked away, I caught sight of a boy peeking from

Colin, with those eyes I could

thought I did. But I had forgotten that

I like you but I need to focus on my college entrance exams. After graduation, we can be

can you wait for me?”

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”