Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 228

After that, Colin was crouched on the floor, panic written all over his face, smudges of the other guy’s blood painting a picture of innocence and pity.

My heart skipped a beat. I must have been seeing things. That guy must have pushed Colin too far, and he just snapped and fought back.

“Don’t be scared. It’s okay.” I quickly moved to embrace Colin.

The man who had tumbled down the stairs looked at Colin with a mix of shock and disbelief, as if he’d just seen some kind of monster, then scrambled to his feet and bolted.

The nurse couldn’t find Colin and, upon entering, found a bloodied man, “What happened here?” Colin turned, giving a look that made the man blurt out in panic, “I…I took a fall down the stairs.” With that, he pushed past the nurse and ran off.

The nurse seemed unconcerned, turning to Colin. “Time for your IV. Why are you wandering off?”

Colin clutched to me, a picture of aggrievedness. “Phoebe, I’m not thirsty anymore. I’m scared. Don’t leave me.”

Colin trembled in my arms, and I held him tight, feeling a pang of guilt. “I’m not going anywhere. Eric will be here any minute to get us what we need. I’ll stay with you.”

stay with me, Phoebe. Don’t leave me

won’t.” I nodded.

his hospital bed, I went to the restroom to moisten a towel to clean his hands. When I returned, I overheard Colin sweet–talking the nurse in a hushed tone.

at the nurse the whole time, “Miss, you’re

nearly conning at his praise, “Oh, you’re

my wife that I can’t get out of bed and that she needs to take good care of me?”

was beaming, easily

see me, “The patient’s wound is fresh. He shouldn’t

was up to when Eric arrived with a glucose oral solution, some comforting

was quick to dismiss him. “Eric, I think you can head home

is my priority.”

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spoke up. “Family time is more important. I can’t monopolize your personal

time. Eric.”

have any family, Eric was Brendan’s right–hand man precisely because he was an orphan with no strings