Chapter 58
“ ‘Looking’? ‘As if’?” Kate managed to choke out. “They’re not—” She tried to stand to look through the studio window, as if she might see them out there flirting with each other.
Mac’s gentle hand on her arm was all that kept her in place.
“Oh no,” he placed his other hand over his heart. “They’re dead now. Sorry, honey, I guess you wouldn’t know. They were poisoned with a paralytic of some sort. It paralyzed everything, including their diaphragms, hearts, you name it. They couldn’t breath or blink. Doctors told us if they’d been given an antidote in the first three minutes they’d have been fine, though maybe not because they both had such big doses, but we didn’t know that and didn’t have the antidote even if we had known it. They said it was something like… Wait, I noted i
