Chapter 205

Hailey’s knees buckled, and she nearly collapsed right there on the spot.

I rushed forward to catch her, but she shoved me away.

Melody wrapped her arm around Hailey, leading her to a nearby bench to sit down.

“Hailey, Dexter only went because he wanted to avenge Phoebe,” Melody choked out, placing the blame squarely on Phoebe’s shoulders.

Even in death, they couldn’t resist dragging my name through the mud.

“It’s my fault…” Hailey’s voice was a hoarse whisper, her face ashen.

I wanted to step forward, but then she spoke again. “I should never have brought Phoebe into our home.”

I stood there, rigid, as the realization hit me–Hailey regretted bringing me into the Fitzgerald family.

Even having died once and feeling numb to the core, her words stung deep.

Suddenly, Colin wrapped his arms around me from behind, his chin resting atop my head as he whispered, “Phoebe, I’ll give you a home.”

He was trying so hard to give Phoebe a home, to rebuild that sense of family she once had.

I stiffened for a moment, then looked up at Colin.

He said he’d give me a home….

“Dexter was hurt because of me, and so was Phoebe,” Hailey continued, her voice trembling.

her face, clutched Hailey’s hand. “Hailey, Dexter will

I love him; I’d lay

knew how to make herself look

eyes from where she stood. “What a load of

just because Foebe’s husband was

how low she could stoop. “You think that just because they’ve got one murderer, nobody can touch you? As far as I know, there’s more than

and she edged closer to Hailey in

Moraver.

focus on Dexter, clasped her hands together in a silent

Dexter would

Mer 2015

patted Colin on the head. “Let’s go sit down for a while.”

obediently following me to a

time. Robin’s onto something, and we’ve found some valuable

us to the rest

silently hoping Robin could coax the whereabouts of

on the ground. He seemed to be deep in thought, his

the people behind this won’t be caught so easily. This time,

was clever, nibbling away at the perpetrators‘ cake–getting

want the truth revealed, the murderers exposed, so they had to eliminate the

it’s the police station,” Colin’s voice tightened. “Call Robin

a murder within the walls of the precinct.

impossible.” I stared at Colin,

said as if she completely trusted Colin’s intuition. She quickly got to her feet and dialed Robin’s number.

was

have been in an interrogation without his phone.

Chucher 205

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