Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 309

He was only peeking his head halfway through, a look of distress in his eyes.

I rubbed my eyes to make sure it wasn't just a trick of the light, and then I darted over in a panic. "Colin..."

Seeing how frightened I was, he mustered his strength, pushed himself up on the windowsill, and leaped inside.

I gotta admit, it was kinda cool.

For a moment, it was like being whisked back to my teenage years. This scene used to unfold quite often in the past, it seems. I'd just forgotten.

"How did you... break out?" I cradled Colin's face in my hands, examining him closely.

There were bruises at the corners of his mouth and eyes, and marks on his Adam's apple where he'd clearly been choked. He had been bound...

I checked him all over frantically, finding red marks on his wrists and ankles, scars on his arms.

Panic surged through me, and I reached to lift his hoodie, only to have Colin grasp my hands.

His voice was still hoarse, tinged with a hint of vulnerability. "Phoebe... they wouldn't let me see you."

Tears welled up in my eyes as I whispered, "Let me look..."

lowered his gaze, slowly releasing

lifted his shirt to find burn marks from electric shocks on his well-defined abs. They were just reddened, but they hinted at the kind of 'treatment' he had endured in

done to you?" I asked, gripping

scared. Scared that Damian had brainwashed Colin and that he wouldn't recognize me

his head and pulled me into his arms, his voice

hand, not wanting to waste another second. "Let's go

my hand tightened. "They know I'd come to

heart sank, realizing

the charges. We could've gotten you out soon. Why take the risk to escape?" I murmured, aware of the odds

hold on me grew firmer. "I was

Afraid of what?

soul... I was afraid..." Colin's voice

control the body, it becomes a source of pain

make patients—or even sane

like GHB,

was calling my name, but I could hear

you?" My voice shook as I scrutinized his

That bastard Damian...

labeled 'mentally ill,' Damian felt he

was

as if to etch my image