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.

you calling 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, I’ll hit

are you? Are you new here? Don’t you

her dress; it’s so pretty.”

“It’s new!”

take off her

the few boys they had to rip it

to the

pounced on one of the attackers, slamming it down on the

girl in the red

the distance, and the faces in my memory grew clear.

dress was me as a child. The boy fighting

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was my dad,

into solitary confinement, ordered by the head to

dad promised to bring each of them one the

my father’s arms as we left, and as we walked away, I caught

was Colin, with those eyes

thought I did. But I had forgotten that memory.

my college entrance exams. After graduation, we can be together, okay?”

you wait

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”