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.

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

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

at her dress;

“It’s new!”

take off her dress, it becomes

girls coveted the red dress, commanding the few boys they had to rip it

rooted to the spot,

grabbed a stone and pounced on one of the attackers, slamming it down on the bully’s head again and

in the red dress screamed for her

figure approached from the distance, and the faces in my memory grew

in the red dress was me as a child. The

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dad, along with the head

solitary confinement, ordered by the head to reflect

dad promised to bring each of them one

as we left, and as we walked away, I caught sight

eyes I

before I thought I did. But I had forgotten

focus on my college entrance exams.

can you wait for me?”

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”