Red_Roses_and_Black_Dahlias_-_Macy_T

however, was that he didn’t speak to his parents anymore. I also didn’t know
Eva and Adam’s marriage was in such jeopardy after Abel’s death.
“The reason why I’m telling you this, Maddox, is because I think you’re
getting too involved in that case. Sure, some things seemed sketchy but in the
great scheme of things, maybe they were just coincidences. The most
plausible route is that it was a robbery gone wrong and that the fucker who
escaped is probably far away from here by now.”
I could hear the truth in his words but I couldn’t get Sofia and Valentina’s
frightened faces out of my head. Every time I considered closing this case
without finding that second guy, Sofia’s face from that night came to mind.
The dry blood on her face, her shaking limbs, her breaking down in the
shower right after. It all kept replaying in my head.
“I know you care deeply about these two girls, you’re not fooling
anyone.” I gulped and looked elsewhere. I knew Adam suspected something
about me and Sofia. He just had an eye for those things. “I think you’re good
for them and that they’re good for you, son. But they’ve been through enough,
and maybe it’s just time to let the past rest.”
I swallowed the emotions clogging up my throat. Maybe he was right.
Maybe all those things that created a case in my mind were nothing but
coincidences.
Maybe it was time to let the past rest.