Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 497

Dexter stared at the scattered papers on the floor, evidence that had slipped through his fingers, and let out a mad chuckle that echoed in the empty

room.

"Are you out of your mind?" Finn cursed under his breath, bending down to gather the mess.

"It can't be!" Dexter raged at Finn, his voice laced with disbelief. "It can't be... She's Phoebe, she is Phoebe!"

Finn dismissed him as if he had lost his senses, paying him no more attention.

Dexter collapsed to the ground, his eyes red and swollen with unshed tears.

He couldn't come to terms with Phoebe's death because he couldn't accept that his own selfishness and arrogance had led to her demise.

In a way, Dexter was a pitiable figure.

I wasn't sure if Phoebe had ever truly loved him...

But it was tragic, indeed.

realization and his love had come

"Ding!"

swung open,

his feet and rushed to the doctor. "Doctor... is

when she'll wake up," the doctor sighed with a hint of relief, then continued, "Fortunately, the dose wasn't lethal. I've seen the syringe Officer Robin brought in. It was meant for euthanizing newborns with deformities, not enough to

lethal injection from the lab was intended for newborns who didn't meet the organization's criteria, leading to their

lab was like a

there might never see the sunlight or the

was a horrifying

it's going to shock the nation," Finn massaged his temples, weary. "Just how dark can the human soul

advanced, and it was hard to find anyone in the wilderness. Three couples went missing in a year, and it was only when the fourth couple was abducted, and the man fought

the scene, the man who reported the crime was already dead. They had killed him

frolicking in the mountains, unbothered. When asked why they did it, they simply said it was fun, curious

have an age. Some things, it seems, are determined from birth," Robin said

the mountains, some of them tortured horrifically, others buried alive... All the women had been violated." Who could imagine that

the incident, local

had encountered these kids in

for the first missing couple. They had asked the kids, who managed to lie without