Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 299

My steps faltered, and I turned back to look at Dexter.

“I don’t remember ever having a dog…”

I was lying through my teeth.

Dexter looked taken aback for a second before he swiftly changed the subject. “Phoebe, if you don’t remember, then let it go. It’s not worth dwelling on, and it’s not exactly a fond memory.”

I stepped into my room and quickly shut the door before Dexter could follow.

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Leaning against the door, I pulled out my phone, determined to log into account. I knew my parents had maintained a social media profile to chronicle my upbringing.

“Phoebe…” Dexter’s voice didn’t fade from the other side of the

voor He

ed like he had a world of

things to say.

But I really didn’t want to hear it.

“Phoebe, I’m sorry, I know it’s too late for words now, but I…”

“Mr. Fitzgerald, Miss Melody took a nasty fall from the attic, looks pretty bad.”

Melody had pulled one of her stunts. Her way of vying for attention

Dexter’s concern shifted

Busy man indeed.

in how he scurried about for Melody, dancing to

he’d find out

kidnappers, but when Dexter came to, it was Melody he saw I had been discovered by the kidnappers and was knocked out cold, landing me in the hospital for days. By the time I came

joke. Back then, I was naive enough to take it hard for quite a

on my bed, scrolling through the

of my life, my

the photo they posted featured four of us: myself, my parents, and Damian.

person holding me was Damian. Despite his smile, he looked downright eerie, giving me

looking at

was again, lurking in the background. My parents seemed

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she might be on the autism spectrum, Damian thinks it’s just a personality mismatch.”

together. We

the therapy seems to be working. No developmental delays, normal intelligence, but her

two, decided to feed the goldfish to the cat today.”

the bathroom, there was blood everywhere. She’s only two and had used a paring knife to kill a

sifted through the records,

snake? Quite

by today; he says

tell, every time there was an incident with me before the age

Coincidence?

reading, but a wave of