Madison's POV: "What are you saying?" I managed to ask even though my voice was barely audible. Tears silently trickled down the maid's cheeks as she drifted her gaze away from mine. Her facial expression shows my worst fears, that she doesn't have to say anything more. "Luna, it seems… it seems he was brought in dead," she managed to say amid tears, with her lips trembling as she looked down. As her words settled in my mind, the room began to spin around me, leaving me numb with shock. I desperately try to hold back the growing scream rising within me by covering my mouth with my hands quickly. That can't happen! No, not Gaius. It's so unimaginable. "It can't be true!" I let out the words silently, shaking my head in disbelief. I suddenly felt a sharp and unrelenting pain pressin