Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 324

Finn was frustrated but dared not raise his voice, murmuring under his breath, “Man, you're one heck of an actor. When your wife was out cold, you were strutting around like some kind of avenging angel, doctors were scared stiff of you. Now you're bawling like you've been dealt the worst hand in life.”

Colin said nothing, just stood there crying with tears falling on his shirt without bothering to wipe them away – it made him look so pitiful that I felt like I was the one in the wrong.

With his large eyes and long lashes, those teardrops were like magnets for sympathy – I almost apologized on instinct.

But then I thought, why should I? It wasn’t my fault; he had been playing dumb all this time.

“Cut it out!” I threatened.

Colin looked up at me, his voice choked with emotion. “Phoebe… don’t be mad at me.”

Stunned silence fell over Stella, Finn, and Robin – their stares seemed to scold me silently, pleading for me to lay off the poor guy.

He was getting all the sympathy.

what they say, change the gender and the whole game flips. If he were a woman, he'd be the queen of manipulators, making even Melody look like an amateur. His tears had everyone rallying

pulling out my phone from my pocket and logging into my

on their kid, noting down every milestone from the day they’re born, but Phoebe’s folks…

Robin continued, “I mean, that’s understandable too, but

to the minute, the precision

for a closer look. “Seriously… this doesn’t look like someone charting a child’s growth – it’s

handed me dropped with

looked up at

side, covering my ears. “Don’t listen, don’t look. Phoebe, if

he let on,

a way to protect

detective work…” Robin was struck by a realization. “I knew there was something fishy about that journal – it reeks of

on lab rats, this is how I’d record – today’s reaction, same time tomorrow, the rat’s condition, and so on, for months, sometimes even monitoring slow-acting

as I instinctively sought solace in