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

is still at large, Dexter.

times. That murderer is so vicious, took

others were discussing the

sundress, gentle as a

I trembled

I couldn’t shake the feeling that it

thought flashed through my mind –

numbly backing away, breathing

afraid.

far from the

him warily. “Don’t…

at me? I was wrong before; I’ll never hurt you again.” Dexter’s promise was

to me, asking

his hand,

I actually

me spacing out and tried

cried out in fear, quickly

but the

came up the stairs, step by step. “Come

soft and

her with suspicion,

“Phoebe?”

stepped towards Melody.

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