Red_Roses_and_Black_Dahlias_-_Macy_T

would make me feel uncomfortable to be around him had he been anyone but
Maddox.
Then his words actually registered and I took a step back, in shock. Eyes
wide, I brought my hand to my mouth.
“That’s where I was all day, why I couldn’t come home and didn’t even
have a second to talk.” He explained more calmly, rubbing a hand over his
face. “Everything was a mess, I didn’t have time to myself I– fuck.” A hand
went through his head in frustration.
I didn’t say anything, and simply sat on the nearest barstool, still
processing all this information, looking at the floor.
“I— how?” Was the only thing I could muster.
“Poison. The coroner said it was too early to say what exactly but he
highly suspected it was venom. A… mix of venoms found in different
tropical snakes which don’t even live in this continent, let alone in our
town.”
I looked up immediately. My ears were ringing.
“Snakes? How would he get bitten by a snake?”
“He didn’t. Someone gave him a poisoned bottle of water, right in front of
us. She evaporated before we could do anything.”
“Wait, she?”
He nodded, dejected. “She. She had such a babyface and— fuck, I can’t
believe I thought she looked innocent.”
I bit my lips, not saying anything about how Conan wasn’t all white either.
It didn’t matter, anyways. He was dead.
Dead.