Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 287

“Phoebe…” Dexter’s tone held an urgency as he reached for my hand, signaling for us to leave the chaos behind. “Come with me, now. The cops have been called, and I’ll figure out a way to handle this.”

The crowd was buzzing with whispers and gasps when Melody screamed, intentionally magnifying … drama, her eyes wide with feigned horror as she turned to Dexter. “Dexter, what happened… who’s the murderer?”

Dexter’s brow furrowed in annoyance. “No one’s dead.”

“Dexter… what’s going on? Could it be Foebe…” Melody threw a pointed glance my way; her eyes fixated on the blood staining my clothes. “Foebe, you went too far. This could be attempted murder, and that means prison time.”

Dexter’s face darkened, his grip on my wrist unyielding. “Just follow me. I’ll get you bailed out.”

“Bunch of lunatics,” Bran scoffed as he shouldered past Dexter and freed me from his grasp. “Even a high schooler knows self–defense isn’t a crime.”

“But she was so brutal; it’s excessive force,” Melody whined, covering her mouth in mock shock. “Everyone saw it.”

“Everyone saw you making a scene for nothing,” Bran snapped at her, his words sharp. “You look like the definition of excessive.”

He yanked open the car door and, with no regard for decorum, shoved me inside. “Look! Damaging property, grabbing people, pulling a knife, attempting murder, and then getting stabbed himself when the knife was turned on him. She stopped a crime in progress. No harm, no foul.”

enough, the police and the

probably hoping their son–in–law would just

in hot

for them…

hell out of everyone; no real danger

wounds, whistling softly in surprise. “Ten stabs… every single one avoiding vital organs, and

and trembling

wounds were fatal or not, I wasn’t sure, but the scare might have nearly killed

came from outside the

grin was Finn. He must have been part of the police response team. “Foebe… How did you manage to make each strike so clean and

me suspiciously, tapping his gloved fingers against the car door, a silent interrogation.

know,” I admitted, my mind a total

case. A boy at an orphanage got stabbed, none of the wounds deep, none fatal. He woke up scared out of his mind, though… Guess

avoided his piercing eyes. “I have

Finn said in a low, serious tone.

then reluctantly