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.

his love had

"Ding!"

swung open,

with worry, scrambled to his feet and rushed to the doctor. "Doctor...

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 kill an adult when shared between two. It's

lab was intended for

underground lab was like a massive furnace,

there might never see the

was a

going to shock the nation," Finn massaged his temples, weary. "Just

and it was hard to find anyone in the wilderness. Three couples went missing in

the man who reported the crime was already dead. They had killed him brutally, slicing open his

caught them, they were still frolicking in the mountains, unbothered. When asked why they did it,

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

we found the other three couples in the mountains, some of them tortured horrifically, others buried alive... All the women had been violated." Who could imagine that a group of

incident, local

leads. They had encountered these

the first missing couple. They had asked the