Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 441

Colin glanced back at me. "Phoebe, did you hope it was me?"

"I didn't hope so," I shook my head.

Whatever the intentions of the person behind all this were, their methods were undeniably extreme.

Using such methods to deal with and harm others for their own ends... I couldn't see them as entirely 'good.'

Colin grabbed my hand, pulling me to hide behind a van, and took off his protective gear. "If you don't hope it's me, then it's not me."

I looked at him, puzzled. "And if I did hope it was you?"

"Then I'd find the person behind this, replace them, and become the one you hoped for." Colin was earnest.

I couldn't help but smile at his silly yet clever response, which addressed my doubts.

Finn said Caleb was all brains and no heart, but from what I saw... Colin was terrifyingly high in both IQ and EQ.

He just... used his intelligence on others and his emotional smarts on 'calculating' me.

and hugged him from behind, tiredly saying, "I'm so

smile, Colin lifted me onto his back, step by step leading me

murmured, eventually falling asleep

he had brought quite a few people with him, evidently

astonished. "How did Eric get here so

been searching for you guys," Eric explained. "What about Bran and the others... Are they okay?" I must have been really worn out, feeling utterly weak. These past days, surviving the brutal game in the derelict building, I was practically living on adrenaline. Falling down the stairs didn't help, and coupled with hunger

Silas was the worst off, but he's alive. Melody was taken by the Gene-Forge Collective, but she'll

drifted back

QUMS

Colin holding my hand, never letting

deadly game wasn't Colin,

myself in a hospital in Sea City, with

beside me and

nearby, giving Colin unfriendly

Stella exclaimed upon seeing

frowned, confused. I had only slept, so why was I in a

out of her bed and hugged

Robin?" I patted