Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

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.

clutched Hailey’s hand. “Hailey, Dexter will wake up. And

with him. I love him; I’d lay down my life for

sure knew how to make herself look like a saint.

eyes from where she stood. “What a

Foebe’s husband was mentally

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

and she edged closer to Hailey in a

Moraver.

focus on Dexter, clasped her hands

that Dexter would make it through.

Mer 2015

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

nodded, obediently following me to a quieter

Robin’s onto something, and we’ve found some valuable clues on the body,” Stella

lead us to the rest of them.

hoping Robin could coax the whereabouts of the other murderers from

bowed, eyes fixed on the ground. He seemed to be deep in thought, his mind

up at me, his voice tense. “Robin… the people behind this won’t be caught so easily. This time,

away at the perpetrators‘ cake–getting closer to the truth.

the truth revealed, the murderers exposed, so they

timing… it’s the police station,” Colin’s voice tightened.

planning a murder within the walls of

That’s impossible.” I stared at Colin,

Colin’s intuition. She

was no answer.

been in an

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