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

"Ding!"

ICU doors swung open, and

feet and rushed to the doctor.

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, but all we

of the situation. The lethal injection from the lab was intended for newborns who didn't meet the organization's criteria, leading

underground lab was like a massive furnace, a

born there might never see the sunlight

a

nation," Finn massaged his temples, weary. "Just how dark

a gang of peers, 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

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

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

Some things, it seems, are determined from birth," Robin said with

the other three couples in the mountains, some of them tortured horrifically, others buried alive... All the women had been violated." Who

the incident,

leads. They had encountered these kids in

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