Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 478

I stumbled into the bathroom, letting the shower wash over me, feeling as if my senses were dialed up to eleven. That's when the panic set in, the creeping suspicion that I was being watched from every corner.

It wasn't long before I started tearing the hotel room apart, my paranoia reaching a fever pitch. I shattered the mirror, convinced I was being spied on through some hidden camera, a cold sneer on my lips as I thought about how invasive they'd become.

After wreaking havoc in the room for what felt like an eternity, I finally crashed, sleeping off the madness for a whole day and night. The next morning, I used Colin's credit card to cover the damages and checked out.

Colin was waiting for me outside the city hall, his face a storm cloud of emotions.

He was there to tell me he wanted a divorce.

"Are you sure?" I asked, exhausted, wondering if the woman he mentioned was indeed Phoebe.

"I'm sorry... she is Phoebe," Colin said with a resolve that broke my heart.

"You were just as sure when you told me I was Phoebe," I countered, looking deep into his eyes.

my gaze. "I'm sorry... I was lying to

a heavy heart. The clerk told us to wait a month for the finalization, a standard

we just skip the waiting period?" I asked, though I already knew the

law," the

without another word, stepping out into a rain-soaked

felt like a constant surveillance, a real-life, Truman Show without the humor or the

a

threw myself into the lake, craving release from

water enveloped me in an icy embrace, my instincts screaming for air while my mind urged me to let

resisted at first, but survival

angry glare told me

on the grass, I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. To fool the world, we had to fool

always said, "Believe you're Phoebe, and you will be.

ever We had to keep living, to prove we were more than

the rain washed over me, I realized how much Colin and I had grown to understand each other