Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 195

“Phoebe…” No sooner had I hung up the phone than Colin launched into his performance.

“Ow, that hurts.” Colin lifted his hand to show me the wound on his wrist.

I had a hunch he had overheard my call with Melody, and now he was scheming to keep me from leaving.

“Didn’t the doc patch you up already?” I held Colin’s wrist briefly. “If it hurts, why do you keep hurting yourself?”

Colin looked at me with those puppy–dog eyes and whispered, “Phoebe, can we just move out and live on our own?”

He didn’t want me to stay at the Langley estate any longer, and as for Brendan, he couldn’t care less.

“We have a home, he said, his gaze unwavering, as if to tell me that this place was our true home.

Only then did I snap back to reality and take in my surroundings.

The garden wasn’t just filled with my favorite flowers; even the decor of the rooms was tailored to my tastes.

It seemed like he had really been working hard to build a home for us.

“Colin… This place isn’t cheap. Did you buy it, or is it a rental?” I asked suspiciously.

a bit evasive for a moment.

to go back to the

the

suddenly, the pain in his wrist seemed to vanish.

leaving,” I

nervously before pulling me into a tight embrace. “You can’t

hurting

he just held me,

get some sleep. I’ll come straight here to be with

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with Colin yet, but the recollection of our first encounter as children seared in my

and the orphanage were really that important to my past, why had

dress, Fanny, was the one who had died, and Melody was the one who always followed Fanny, seemingly

had that manipulative aura about

several boys were beaten up. In my memory, James hadn’t been involved;

Phoebe’s father who had come

the kids there. The headmaster had punished Colin and