Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 221

“Took off?” I frowned, wondering what on earth Dexter was up to now.

“Did he swing by your place?” Stella inquired.

“Nope, I’ve been…” I was shacked up in a villa that Colin had rented on the outskirts of town. Dexter wouldn’t have a clue where to find me, unless he went to the Langley Mansion?

“What if he showed up at the Langley Mansion?” I bolted upright, got up and changed my shoes, “The guy better not be kicking the bucket on the Langley family’s doorstep. Talk about a bad

omen.

After hanging up, Stella and I both made a beeline for the Langley estate. Sure enough, we found Dexter barely on his feet at the entrance.

What was he thinking, leaving the hospital and his cozy bed to come see me?

Dexter was as pale as a ghost, and when he saw me, he slumped against the wall, “Phoebe Caldwell.”

He was calling me “Phoebe“?

The guy had lost it, looking for a stand–in again.

My brows furrowed, “Dexter, if you’re gonna die, at least don’t do it on my doorstep.”

pulled me into a fierce hug,

sorry.

as if I’d been shocked, my anger flaring up as I stared

soaking up fresh blood from a wound in his abdomen. “I shouldn’t have doubted you,” he seemed convinced I was Phoebe, like Colin, looking for some fragile hope to

person,”

I was nearly dying, I saw Foebe Larson,” Dexter seemed

his words low.

surging through me, “What did

think he saw?

dream. But he was stubborn, convinced

took a deep breath, glancing nervously

dream.” Dexter’s voice was hoarse. “At least, let

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guilt towards her by making it up to me. To be honest,

burned into me, his hand reaching out desperately, “Phoebe, come back with me, will you? If you

seemed like he was pleading,

I would have done anything for him, and he treated me like I was poison. And now he

him.