Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 459

Stepping out of the basement, my back felt like it had aged a decade overnight.

I shot Colin a glare over my shoulder, and he couldnously looked away, muttering, "Phoebe, that mattress was a disaster. Told Eric to dump it." "I ought to dump you," I grumbled through clenched teeth.

But Colin was quick to grab my hand, a playful seriousness in his tone. "No can do, darling. We're signed, sealed, and delivered. No returns, no exchanges."

I glanced down at Colin's hand enveloping mine but didn't pull away as we stepped out into the open.

And into the rain, which had started without our notice, cocooned as we were in our underground hideaway.

I've always had a thing for spaces that cut you off from the world, granting a kind of security I rarely felt elsewhere. No concept of day or night, rain or shine - just a timeless bubble.

"Phoebe!" Dexter's voice cut through the patter of rain as he rushed over, soaked to the skin. "You alright?"

"What, hoping for a spectacle?" I stood there, letting the rain drench me, while Colin held an umbrella over my head.

Dexter, looking every bit the tragic figure in the rain, said with regret, "I'm here to apologize... on behalf of Melody."

what gives you the right

twist my words? I... I just couldn't keep an eye on

remorse.

Colin was holding. He always angled it more towards me, protecting me from the rain. Dexter, on the other hand, never once offered me such shelter. He even went as far as to tear

is worthless, a truth I had come to

at me from

her with pity. She was bound

you'll catch a cold," she rasped, urging Dexter to get

soaked would worsen her health, she dared not

Damian, and my leads have dried up," Dexter said, gazing at his car where a young girl sat in the passenger seat. Her pale, colorless complexion and

something, someone throws a wrench in the works," Dexter clenched

had 'silenced' him. Though Damian wasn't dead, the odds of

asked, looking at

grave danger. If those behind the scenes wanted to

puddles as if afraid. Only when Dexter stayed by her side did she dare

high school, about Bran's age, gearing up for college entrance exams," Dexter explained