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.

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

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

waiting period?" I asked, though I

the

I left without another word, stepping out into a rain-soaked

all. Life felt like a constant surveillance, a real-life, Truman

a

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

air while my mind urged me to let

at first, but survival

surfaced, and Colin's angry glare told me I'd gone too far this

but laugh at the absurdity of it all. To fool the world, we had to

had always said, "Believe you're Phoebe, and you will

"Caleb!" My voice was weak, but my resolve was stronger than ever We had to keep living, to prove we were more than pawns

me, I realized how much Colin and I had grown to understand each other without words, our connection deepening through the trials