Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 301

I scrambled under the bed, watching the figure slip into the room.

It was the nanny.

The fact that Damian and Melody could roam the Fitzgerald mansion so brazenly was a testament to something off about the nanny.

Since arriving at the Fitzgerald estate, we'd simply called her Wendy. She'd been my and Dexter's personal caregiver, always close at hand.

Wendy was 48, always dressed in plain, no-frills clothes that made her seem older than she was. Yet, beneath the simplicity, you could tell she had been a stunner in her youth, with delicate features that time hadn't fully erased.

She had a gentle demeanor and a sharp mind, rarely speaking out of turn. Hailey trusted her implicitly, which is why she felt comfortable leaving both me and Dexter in Wendy's care.

From my hiding spot under the bed, I watched silently.

Wendy moved slowly to the bedside, gazing at Dexter as he lay asleep, not uttering a word.

I frowned, alert and wary. A nanny sneaking into the master's room in the dead of night, staring at him like that—it was downright eerie.

"Wendy, who are you trying to spook, up and about at this hour?" Melody's voice came from the doorway, catching Wendy off guard.

silhouette by the

they?"

hit Dexter hard, and he's been prone to depression. If you hadn't found him that time he attempted..." Melody sighed. "We're just looking out

Mr. Fitzgerald. Ms. Burton,

to leave, pausing at the

imagination, but I felt her gaze

fists and held my breath, daring

Fitzgerald family seemed increasingly inscrutable to

Dexter, once the most enigmatic, now seemed the most

first, asking for my help to shake off Phoebe, saying she was always clinging to you. I helped you, now it's your turn to help me," Melody sat on the edge of the bed, gently touching Dexter's face. "Dexter, I truly love you. Do you know how jealous I was of Phoebe? Why did she

brows, steadying my breathing from beneath the bed,

kept her close, not just out of gratitude, but out of

child wasn't his, suggesting a complicated history between

Phoebe Larson is a real ghost or a fake, I can't leave her be," Melody said through

wanted me gone. Because she felt

Damian were plotting something big,

place by your side," Melody

I was sure Melody was gone, I let out a sigh of