Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 253

Somebody’s got a hit out on you. Don’t blame us for what’s coming.” The ringleader, brandishing a knife, was hell–bent on taking me out.

Coly mustered its last ounce of strength and lunged forward.

What dark thoughts could a dog harbor? It knew only one thing: to protect me at all costs.

Argh!” My head throbbed as if it were about to explode.

Flashes of memories surged through my mind.

A frail little pup, barely alive after its birth, its stray mother was stoned to death by a gang of kids.

The mother dog, dragging her weary body, was just trying to scrounge some scraps to feed her litter.

But those kids, it seemed, found pleasure in cruelty, pelting the dog with rocks mercilessly. From the moment of birth, the nature of good and evil is etched within us. Some manage to curb their malevolence, letting benevolence steer their course; others forsake all goodness, becoming slaves to their wickedness.

Those kids didn’t think they were in the wrong. It was the primitive, cruel gene within humanity.

They delighted in tormenting creatures weaker than themselves, finding joy in their pain.

memory was just a kid, too, wielding a brick larger than my

puppy.

and he burst

hair, asking coldly.

other kids fled in terror, leaving the crying boy alone. “See, you know what pain feels

parents came, berating my

and got the injured

from the litter, a fierce–looking wolfdog I named Howler.

on, a fearsome girl was never without her equally fearsome hound.

is, run!

mere sight of me. Seeing me meant

cold, too

sins did we commit to

wrong? Starting tomorrow, I’ll commit to charity work, I’ll pray to God, I’ll do anything just to see my daughter healthy

the memory, my parents cried secretly in their

it can be treated. There are mature treatments available now.

a child! You want