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.

and his love

"Ding!"

ICU doors swung open,

worry, scrambled to his feet and

"Fortunately, the dose wasn't lethal. I've seen the syringe Officer Robin brought in. It was meant for euthanizing newborns with deformities,

injection from the lab was

entire underground lab was like a massive furnace,

might never see

a

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

mentor... A thirteen-year-old leading 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 it was only when the fourth couple was abducted, and the

crime was already dead. They had

why they did it, they simply said it was fun, curious about

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."

the incident,

They had encountered these

couple. They had asked the kids, who managed to