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.

the red dress stood defiantly in front of the boy. scooping up stones from the ground. “If

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

dress; it’s so

“It’s new!”

take off her

few boys they had to

girl stood rooted to the

the boy snapped. He grabbed a stone and pounced on

in the red dress screamed

and the faces in

dress was me as

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figure running towards us was my dad, along with the head

solitary confinement, ordered by the head to reflect on his actions.

dress, so my dad promised to bring each of them one the next time he visited.

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

eyes

long before I thought I did. But I had forgotten

my college entrance exams. After graduation, we

you wait for me?”

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”