Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 204

“Dexter… Dexter!”

While we were all anxiously awaiting news on whether Dexter would pull through, a wail carried over from a distance.

I frowned. Isn’t it a bit early for a funeral procession? The guy’s not dead yet.

Melody was sobbing her heart out; her wails were legendary.

Clutching a ghostly pale Hailey, Melody stumbled closer, her cries punctuating each step. Professional mourners had nothing on her performance.

I watched her with a furrowed brow. This woman was such a jinx.

“Why the waterworks? He’s not gone yet.” I said, frowning.

At the sight of me, Melody lunged like a rabid dog spotting a steak.

I was just about to retaliate, to knock her into next week when suddenly I was hoisted aside and shielded in a protective embrace.

Colin’s icy stare bore into Melody, his presence alone enough to chill the air.

Melody’s raised hand and her fiery temper extinguished at the sight of Colin, and she recoiled in terror. “It’s him, Hailey, it’s him… He’s the murderer!”

etched across

already pinned the blame for

but took the slap

grabbing her wrist. “Hailey, Melody is one

Hailey retorted, visibly shaken, her

loathed Colin,

by Colin, determined not to let Hailey hurt him

got stabbed to save me; I’m so

begun. She was seizing every opportunity to curry favor with Hailey, all to secure her

dislike her, but knowing how Dexter

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our

that winning over Hailey was crucial to securing her place in the Fitzgerald family. “You really are a jinx, crying over Dexter like he’s already a goner,” Stella remarked, returning from seeing Robin to the elevator, having caught

demon. Dexter didn’t have to be critically injured; it was her stupidity

gritted teeth, barely containing her rage at Melody.

kept up her tears. “Hailey, they’re all in cahoots with the murderer, trying to

name.”

Colin was

him.

emerged from the operating room, she looked ready to tear