Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"I... I didn't. I didn't poison her!" Sophia was essentially being put on the spot.

Silas disregarded her denial. He continued in a deep, cold voice, "At that time, you panicked. You fled from the crime scene. But you forgot to take this medicine bottle with you.

"That year, the victim's death was determined to be a suicide. This made you let your guard down. You never went back to the scene to double-check.

"The Beckett family figured that it was bad luck that someone had died in that room. So, they ended up locking the room up. Unexpectedly, this unintentional decision has helped the police preserve the crime scene to this day.

"This medicine bottle used to contain the victim's depression medication. It was placed by her bedside. Its contents were swapped out. But there was some drug residue in the bottle.

"We lifted samples for testing and found that it wasn't fentanyl. It was cyanide."

Cyanide?

That was the most poisonous of all poisons! Coming into contact with it would be sufficient to cause death, let alone ingesting it.

The room was in an uproar.

Sophia was vicious indeed!

able to understand how it felt to be wrongly accused. She was hysterical. She tried to explain

that to poison

bottle. If

piercing look in his eyes. He continued to put pressure on her. "Let me recount the sequence of events in this crime. First, you entered Anne Bartley's room. Then, you came up with an excuse to get her to

you were afraid that your crime would be exposed. Hence, you threw Ms. Bartley from her balcony. You staged the scene as though she had

at

rose to his feet. "Let me remind you, Ms. Kirkman, that Ms. Bartley is now buried at East Side Lyon Cemetery. We can

remains remaining, we can conduct tests to ascertain whether her demise resulted

true! I didn't poison

onto the metal railings. Her eyes were bloodshot. Like a mad woman, she

back! I ended up pushing her down by

cat was finally let

true that she was falsely accused. Pressuring her was

did if she was truly innocent and free of