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.

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

here? Don’t you

at her dress; it’s so pretty.”

“It’s new!”

her

coveted the red dress, commanding the few boys

girl stood rooted to the

something in the boy snapped. He grabbed a stone and pounced on

the red

the distance, and the faces in my memory grew

the red dress was me as a child.

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dad, along with the

thrown into solitary confinement, ordered by the head

girls who had bullied us said they liked my dress, so my dad promised to bring each

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

those eyes

thought I did. But I had forgotten

but I need to focus on my

can you wait for

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”