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

heart. The clerk told us to wait a month for the

I asked, though I already knew the

the law," the clerk

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

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

a

impulse, I threw myself into the lake, craving release from the

icy embrace, my instincts screaming for air while my mind urged me to let go. Then, suddenly, there was Colin, pulling me close, offering me breath in a desperate underwater

at first, but survival

gasping, we surfaced, and Colin's angry glare

laugh at the absurdity of it all. To fool the world,

"Believe you're Phoebe, and you

I called out to him, "Caleb!" My voice was weak, but my resolve was stronger than ever We had to keep living, to prove

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