Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Caleb furrowed his brow, creating some distance between himself and Coraline.

But Coraline inched closer again.

With a furrowed brow, Caleb broke the silence. “You reek”

Coraline gasped.

Standing outside the door, it was clear to me that Coraline’s svelte figure tensed up.

I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness Caleb wasn’t a fan of her act.

“Mr. Langley, please have a look at this. If everything seems in order, you can sign off.” Coraline rolled her eyes and straightened up, surely muttering under her breath about Caleb being a clueless idiot when it comes to romance.

Caleb flipped through the contract and his expression darkened, “Who reviewed this?”

His presence was so commanding it left Coraline at a loss for words. “It was just… the project team, Calvin.”

“Eric!” His voice was deep and resonant when he called out.

I turned to see Caleb stride into the office with a grave look on his face.

To tell you the truth, in all the time I’d been around, I’d never seen Colin this serious.

“You can fire these folks,” Colin declared as he tossed the contract onto the desk.

Clearly, there was an issue with the contract.

“Tampering with contract’s nuances is usually hard to spot. They really can’t stay.” Caleb said after a careful review and nodded in agreement.

I stood outside the door and was stunned for a long while. I almost forgot that Colin wasn’t a fool; he was a genius.

With contracts like these, he only needed to glance over them to spot the issues. And if that went further, he probably had a photographic memory.

“Eric,” I said as Eric emerged from the office. “Who let Coraline into the company? That Executive Assistant?”

Eric nodded politely at me. “She claimed to be your sister, so the young master made an exception.”

I was a bit irritated. Caleb was still a fool, after all. I had just given him undue credit. “My sister has been shady since we were kids. It’s really not proper for her to be this close to Caleb. She’s not fit for her position if she even botches basic contract reviews. We should take this opportunity to transfer her,” I whispered.

10:52

It wasn’t that I was trying to trip Coraline up, but she was up to no good.

Eric cast me a knowing look and nodded, “Right away, Ma’am.”

Descending the stairs of the Langley Group building, I caught sight of Dexter leaning against the car door.

Lignored him, treating him like thin air and walking past.

“Headed to the hospital? I can drive you,” he offered.

I scoffed. “Melody’s child is gone, and instead of comforting her at the hospital, you’re here. waiting for me?”

Was it Melody who told him she wanted to see me? I thought.

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child isn’t mine.” Dexter said out of the blue.

I found him disgusting. He was now even denying Melody’s child, huh?

“ver laid a finger on her,” he seemed to be explaining something urgently to me.

I found him laughable and sickening. His lies would have been more convincing if they were about something no one knew.

The idea of them living together yet him claiming he never touched Melody? Was he trying to portray himself as some paragon of virtue?

Besides whether he touched Melody or not was none of my business.

“Don’t sicken me with your lies,” I warned Dexter with a glance and turned to leave.

But Dexter seemed persistent. “You’re Phoebe Caldwell, aren’t you?” he asked.

He seemed desperate to confirm whether I was really Phoebe or not. It appeared he had his suspicions but wasn’t certain.

“If I were Phoebe, I’d have killed you on the spot, not given you the chance to disgust me like this,” I said, hailing a taxi by the roadside. As I got into the cab, I glanced at the Langley Group’s office tower.

Maybe it was just my imagination, but I had this nagging feeling – someone was watching me.

Could it be Colin?