Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 454

Before the guard could finish his sentence, a delivery truck hurtled our way out of nowhere.

"Bang!" That was the sound.

Instinctively, Colin wrapped his arms around me, pulling me into his embrace, shielding me from the impact.

But Damian... Damian wasn't so lucky. The truck sent him flying.

"Run... get out..." Damian's voice was raspy, barely there, as if he'd mustered all his strength for those words.

Get out.

He wasn't talking about escaping the immediate danger, but rather, like Truman from "The Truman Show," breaking free from a world under constant surveillance.

"Dr. Damian!" The hospital's security rushed over, surrounding Damian, and dialed 911 for an ambulance.

I stood frozen, my fingers numb.

Damian was a target too...

And me, I hadn't even come close to reaching Damian's level...

Who was behind all this? How could they be so terrifying?

profound sense of

we were no more than ants,

and hierarchical structures... You don't touch the interests of the elite unless you can fight your way in. Otherwise... if you threaten their

truck, Damian's words

capital and conspiracy, nations and wars, to

and darkness grow with one's station,

real and what's fake, in the world around Phoebe and me?"

one of us is the protagonist of our own world; everyone else is just background," Colin squeezed

I'm not really Phoebe?" I looked

wasn't Phoebe, that my memories were just part of some

What could he do...

nose tingled, a heat rising in my

seemed so unfair to him; he'd suffered too much for Phoebe. If the truth turned out to be different from what he believed, how would he

that outcome made my heart ache as if

know if it was the memories or if I had truly

like the whole world was a fabrication, an

are..." Colin's

that I didn't, or if

a scientific

unknown just because science hasn't affirmed it yet..." Colin pulled me into a corner, cradling my face. "Phoebe, don't overthink it. you; I've

to the

was always striving to

arrived, taking