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.

"I'm sorry... I was lying

divorce papers with a heavy heart. The clerk told us to wait a month for the

I asked,

law," the clerk responded

left without another word, stepping out into a rain-soaked world that seemed to

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

a

threw myself into the

my mind urged me to let go. Then, suddenly, there was Colin,

resisted at first, but

angry glare told me

at the absurdity of it all. To fool the

and you

resolve was stronger than ever We had to keep living, to prove we were more than pawns in their game

me, I realized how much Colin and I had grown to understand each