Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 29

Dexter didn’t head home; instead, he found himsell wandering down Flare Alley and Tangle

Lane.

I had no clue what he was up to, just aimlessly trailing behind him.

Perhaps, I was too eager to witness the look on his face when he confronted the truth.

Would it be regret, relief, or would he defend Melody at that very moment?

“Dexter, did you ever care for me, even the slightest? When you were tormenting me, what were you thinking? A mix of disgust and your unrestrained demand?” I stood behind Dexter, repeating my questions over and over.

I knew full well he couldn’t hear me, yet I stubbornly sought a resolution, an answer.

“Dexter… we really couldn’t find Phoebe. The cops said it’s a fact that we had Phoebe over on the 13th and 14th, and we all admitted to it. But they’re saying the surveillance footage shows Phoebe showing up again on the 15th, heading down Tangle Lane. I saw the tape myself, Phoebe was definitely there, all by herself.”

Dexter’s buddy had arrived with the investigation updates.

on a show? Clearly, I heard their laughter and

Phoebe was the kind of woman even a creep wouldn’t look at

was she doing there all alone on the 15th?” Dexter’s face was glum as he surveyed the surroundings. “Did

during the window of Phoebe’s disappearance. There was just this janitor hauling a big trash bin out; no sign of Phoebe…” His

you don’t think something really happened to Phoebe, do you?” Dexter went white as a sheet, probably starting to panic. “Don’t talk nonsense.

stepped back and leaned against

there watching Dexter. Desolation

the kind of woman who’d do anything to get her way. She pushed Melody down the

me; I always knew that. They all adored

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innocence, but their disrespect, their jokes,

Dexter loathed me, so

Hank a dark,

family’s back garden. But he didn’t succeed; I managed to crack his skull and sent him running.

that day. He said even if I spoke up, no one would believe me.

and slandered me among Dexter’s circle of friends, all to fear the day I’d reveal the truth.

would just be another stain on my already