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

heavy heart. The clerk told

just skip the waiting period?" I asked, though I

the law," the clerk responded

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

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

a

of sheer impulse, I threw myself into the lake,

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

first, but survival

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

the absurdity of

"Believe you're Phoebe, and you

called out to him, "Caleb!" My voice was weak, but my resolve was stronger than ever We had to keep living, to prove we were more than pawns in their game -real

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