Chapter 259

Dexter, she’s not Phoebe…”

The last fragments of consciousness hung on Melody’s tearful declaration that I wasn’t Phoebe.

“Phoebe is dead.”

I knew she was scared, panicking.

But why the panic? She was so confident before, so sure Dexter would marry her. Now, why the tears?

When I woke up again, everything was stark white. I found myself in a strangely familiar yet foreign place.

It was the Fitzgerald family mansion, the bedroom I had lived in for many years.

My vision was a bit numb. I tried to move my arm, but my body wasn’t quite under my control.

“Miss Phoebe…” a familiar voice called out my name.

“Miss, dinner’s ready,” said Wendy, the housekeeper, calling out to me.

I sat up with a headache, looking down at the clothes I was wearing, feeling a bit out of it.

These pajamas… they were a gift from Hailey.

“Miss, the young master is back,” Wendy said with a smile from outside the door.

familiar yet so strange.

Dexter. You

murderer is so vicious, took so many lives, and is still on the loose.”

discussing the

a stream. She was

why I trembled at the sight

shook, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it wasn’t fear

– they all deserved to

numbly backing away,

“Don’t be afraid. They’re just

unusually gentle, far

him warily. “Don’t… don’t

hurt you

out to me, asking for

hand, my vision blurred.

actually

He saw me spacing out and tried to touch

out in fear, quickly

but the thoughts swirling

came up the stairs, step by step. “Come down for dinner.”

soft and

her with suspicion, my pupils dilated.

“Phoebe?”

stepped towards Melody.

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