Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 397



"Are you okay?"

With a scream that cut through the air, it was Bran. In my dazed state, when Bran came to check on me, I had him pinned against the wall in a manner that must have been quite painful.

Bran looked at me, utterly bewildered, before finally finding his words. "Holy smokes... Caleb was right, you really are Phoebe Caldwell..."

I furrowed my brows, the headache feeling like it was tearing my soul from my body.

"Feels weird to be back among the living, huh?" I croaked out.

After I said it, even I was confused.

Who was I asking?

Myself or someone else?

Bran, still pinned against the wall, stiffened before starting to complain. "Ouch, ouch, let go..."

Stella, standing nearby, watched us with shock, while Finn and Robin quickly intervened, prying me off Bran.

"You've got some moves..." Robin said, looking puzzled.

It was like a professional hold, something they were taught in training - a technique to maximize damage even with a significant power difference.

tension. "Maybe Phoebe just reacted without thinking. She's been struggling in her sleep, might've been having

stepping back

in

looked down, then around, feeling an unfamiliar sense

my name

reflexively, I grabbed her by the throat, warding

tensed, panic

front of Stella protectively, eyeing

a rush of confusion and helplessness. "It wasn't me... It

understand what I

don't be scared. I know you didn't mean it. Let's get out of here, go

bucket, stop wasting time. If you want to

as she cast a meaningful glance at Dexter and

frowned, his gaze on me mixed with

met Dexter's eyes,

floor. No passages or exits. This floor is different from the seventeenth; it's. filled with partitions that seem solid but are actually just drywall. Some hide strange noises behind them. We shouldn't break them down

it seemed cooperation was our only

won't

other traps, like the power outage on the seventeenth floor, followed

thudded, clearly

then picked up an axe and struck

cracked open, and a thick smell

Everyone tensed up.

fearing they'd be left behind if an exit was