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 come too

"Ding!"

doors swung open, and the

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

but it's uncertain 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 kill an adult when shared between two. It's dangerous,

situation. The lethal injection from the lab was

was like a

there might never see the sunlight

a

nation," Finn massaged his temples, weary.

kidnapping young couples hiking in the mountains. Back then, surveillance wasn't-as advanced, and it was hard to find anyone in the wilderness. Three couples went missing in a year, and it

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

why they did it, they

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

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 thirteen and fourteen-year-olds could commit such

the incident,

leads. They had encountered these

for the first missing couple. They had asked the kids, who managed