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 girl in the red dress stood defiantly in front of the boy. scooping up

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

dress;

“It’s new!”

off her dress, it becomes ours.”

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

stood rooted to the

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

red dress

and the

as a child. The boy

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was my dad, along with the

going on here?” Colin was thrown into solitary confinement, ordered by the head to reflect on his

had bullied us said they liked my dress, so my dad promised to bring each of them one the

cradled in my father’s arms as we left, and as we walked away, I caught sight of a boy peeking from behind

Colin, with those eyes I could never forget.

had known Colin long before I thought I

my college entrance exams. After graduation, we can

wait

Colin.

Colin…

“Phoebe!”