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.

or just putting on a show? Clearly, I heard their laughter and horseplay through the earpiece on

over the monitor that Phoebe was the kind of woman even a creep wouldn’t look at twice.

was she doing there all alone on the 15th?” Dexter’s face was glum as

disappearance. There was just this janitor hauling a big trash bin out; no sign of

went white as a sheet, probably starting to panic. “Don’t talk nonsense.

stepped back and leaned

watching Dexter. Desolation

the

always knew that. They all adored Melody.

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the knack to convince these guys of her innocence, but their disrespect, their jokes, bullying, and even aggression towards

me, so naturally,

brows, giving Hank a

garden. But he

Hank threatened me to keep quiet about that day. He said even if I spoke up, no one

nobody would believe me, he spread rumors and slandered me among Dexter’s circle of friends, all to fear the day I’d reveal the

his assault would just be another stain on my already tarnished reputation,