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.

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,

you? Are you new here? Don’t

at her dress; it’s so pretty.”

“It’s new!”

her dress,

dress, commanding the few boys they had to rip it from the little girl.

to the spot,

pounced on one of the attackers, slamming

girl in the red

distance, and the faces in

red dress was me as a child. The boy fighting was Colin.

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towards us was my dad, along with the head of the

was thrown into solitary confinement, ordered

my dress, so my dad

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

Colin, with those eyes I could never

Colin long before I thought I did. But I had

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

wait for me?”

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”