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 to

heart. The clerk told us to wait a

period?" I asked, though

law," the

out into a rain-soaked world that seemed to

of it all. Life felt like a constant surveillance, a real-life, Truman Show without the humor or

a

I threw myself into

screaming for air while my mind urged me to let go. Then, suddenly, there was Colin, pulling me close, offering

first, but survival

Colin's angry glare told me I'd gone

of it all.

"Believe you're Phoebe, and you will

ever We

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