Chapter 16

“Did we even know he had a brother?” Rocco asked, to no one in particular.

“He works on the crew,” Sergei informed him. “On the lights, among other things.”

“Oh boy.” Rocco wasn’t pleased yet another suspect was entering the fray.

“He is secret ugly brother no one knows about,” Mikolas said.

“Any reason he might want you dead?” Rocco insinuated himself between Ridley and Mikolas—literally—as he sat down between them on the end of the bed.

“I cannot imagine what it would be. We grew up close, but then I go away. My family was poor and government offered to make us figure skaters. My father needed one of us to stay home and work for him, so they sent me to become rich and famous and kept hideous Pavel to work reselling caskets because I was so much better looking.”

“Wait. Reselling caskets?”

“Yes. My papa and Pavel dig up fresh graves and put bodies in cheap coffins as to resell pretty ones.”