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

"Ding!"

swung open, and the

worry, scrambled to his feet and rushed

the syringe Officer Robin brought in. It was meant for euthanizing newborns with

the lab was intended for newborns who didn't meet the

entire underground lab was like a

see the

was a

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

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.

already dead.

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

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

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

incident, local

They had encountered

asked the kids, who managed to lie without