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..."

his gaze, slowly releasing my

burn marks from electric shocks on his well-defined abs. They were just

I asked,

Scared that Damian had brainwashed Colin and that

Colin just shook his head and pulled me into

wanting to

on my hand tightened. "They

sank, realizing Colin had

take the risk to escape?" I murmured, aware of the odds

me grew firmer. "I was

Afraid of what?

body is just a vessel for the soul... I was afraid..." Colin's voice

the soul can't control the body, it becomes

always have drugs and methods to make patients—or even sane

like GHB, the

He was calling my name, but I could hear the

done to you?" My voice shook

That bastard Damian...

ill,' Damian felt he could use mind-altering drugs

it was

as if to etch