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?

time, I felt a profound sense of

we were no more than ants, easily crushed if they so

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

words echoed

and conspiracy, nations and wars, to neighborhood gossip and workplace

with one's station, shifting

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

own world; everyone else is just background," Colin squeezed my fingers back. "To me, you're always the protagonist, but I don't want to

not really Phoebe?" I looked

were

What could he do...

heat rising

forehead against his. It all seemed so unfair to him; he'd suffered too much for Phoebe. If the truth

outcome made my heart ache as if it were about

know if it was the memories or if I had truly been reborn... I wasn't even sure if I was Phoebe

was a fabrication, an

Colin's

some truth that

scientific perspective,

universes is plausible. We can't deny the 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

always striving

arrived,