Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 219

Back home, I coaxed Colin into hitting the sack first.

The guy acted like he’d hit the jackpot, putting on a pitiful face, claiming he had a fever, his hand hurt, his foot hurt, and he needed me to bathe him.

If he’d just behave, it wouldn’t be such a chore…but no, he had to push his luck. At first, he stripped down himself, and now he had me drenched from head to toe.

“Caleb Langley called out his full name through gritted teeth, soaked through.

“Phoebe, your clothes are wet; let’s just shower together, Colin said with an innocent face, earnestly reaching for the buttons on my blouse.

I slapped his hand away. Taking a deep breath, I kept reminding myself he was my husband. It was my fault, really. I’d spoiled him rotten.

“Phoebe.”

My phone rang. To avoid any water damage. I kept it on the ledge inside the bathtub.

Colin reached to grab it for me, but the moment he saw it was Dexter, his face darkened and his fingers slipped.

phone take a dive into the bathtub, struggling for a

went

rage surged within me. Dexter’s number had been

at me, right?” Colin looked at me with puppy dog eyes, the dark clouds from moments ago gone, replaced by a plea for forgiveness like a

quelled yet again by his good looks.

third phone you’ve wrecked.” I said through clenched teeth, trying to

“Is a phone more fun than

puzzled. Fun?

salvage my drowned phone, he grabbed my wrist, and before I knew it, I was pulled

instant, only to be extinguished just as quickly by his physique

was pale as a ghost with well–defined muscles, water droplets adorning him like a merman fresh from the depths, untouched by

Colin said innocently, a smirk creeping on his lips as

too slippery, and I just ended up even closer.

tensed for a moment, not pushing

like biting when you’re mad?” He murmured, and then suddenly flipped us over, pinning me under him in

and I instinctively held my breath, only to have him kiss me. Suddenly, it hit me