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.”

stumbled towards me, and then suddenly pulled me into a fierce hug, “Phoebe…I’m

sorry.

shocked, my anger flaring up as I stared at him,

wound in his abdomen. “I shouldn’t have doubted you,” he seemed convinced I was

the wrong person,” my voice was grim.

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

his words low.

surging through me,

did he think

to doubt his own words, as if it was all just a dream. But he was stubborn, convinced his dream was reality. Phoebe hadn’t

took a deep breath, glancing nervously

was hoarse. “At least, let me make

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or not, he wanted to atone for his guilt towards her by making it up

reaching out desperately,

was pleading,

time, I would have done anything for him, and he treated me like I was poison. And now he was begging someone who looked like me to

him.