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He heard who he was going to assume was Ethan say, “Roger!”
Moments later, another scary ass looking guy appeared. He was even taller than James, and his face looked to have been shredded by claws. The cuts were deep and bloody looking.
“What is this about?” Ethan asked as he made it to them. He did a slight bow towards Octavius. “Mr. Evander. What can I, or we, do for you?”
Turney saw that Octavius was about to, yet again, blurt out everything. “It’s a sensitive matter,” he quickly said.
Octavius sighed next to him, but waved him on with his hand.
“We found…Kristof, one of the performers, dead.”
Well, technically he had been dead when he had fallen in front of everyone, but whatever.
“What?!” they both cried out at the same time.
“You can’t be serious,” James hissed. “Is this a joke?”
Turney winced. “I’m afraid not.”
Octavius dramatically added, “He was murdered!”
“Murdered?!” Ethan rasped, while James remained silent, looking completely shocked.
He eyed the vampire. Octavius glanced at him quickly with fake innocence. Why was he even trying for tact at this point? Usually, Octavius was better than this. Sure, he was impatient and loved to blurt things out, but he was never this bad…
Turney sighed. He supposed it had been blatantly obvious back in the ballroom that the vampire was not in any way interested in dealing with this right now. He was going to assume Octavius’ lack of interest meant blunt was what he was defaulting to. Turney bet the little menace was forcing himself to investigate because he was too stubborn to just let Alexander handle the whole thing.
“Unfortunately,” Turney said gently before explaining what had happened and why they were there. “We understand that you two are Jagger’s lovers?”
Ethan nodded. “I can see why you would suspect those involved with him. But while James and I have slept with Jagger and his wife, Lorraine, we have also been with Kristof. However…our main partners are each other.” The male grasped James’ hand. “We would never hurt Kristof. We didn’t love him, not as Jagger or some of the others did, but we are not in love with anyone other than each other.”
James smiled at Ethan and leaned closer to the other man. Ethan wrapped his arm around the other male. Which was super creepy due to the costumes… There had to be some fucked up porno somewhere that mimicked this.
James cleared his throat. “To add on, neither of us worked closely with Kristof on his performances. Us going near his equipment, or any of his things, let alone the chandelier, would draw questions. Most of our interactions with him were outside of the work environment. You can ask anyone. We haven’t even stepped foot in the room you found him in.”
“Then who does have access?” Octavius asked.
If they could narrow down the list, they could finish up with this case faster.
“Jace, Vance, Kyle, Tina, Gordy, Bates, Brim, Bronx, Cindy, Jessica, Darien—” Ethan continued to list off names, and while he did go on for a while…the new list was at least half the size of the one they currently had. So, that was something.
James explained, “All of them would know what Kristof’s role in the performance was, and would not be questioned if they were near his equipment. Some are there to specifically prep things for him for his shows.”
“Hmm, that does narrow it down a bit, considering how lengthy our list was,” Octavius said with a feigned smile. “Do you know of anyone who perhaps did not like Kristof? Jagger claims to have a policy on jealousy in his relationships, but we all know something like that can be hidden.”
Ethan sighed. “Jagger is still quite young. He is very optimistic, and is blind to a lot of things. And, in this case, he’s very blind to the jealousy of others. I will say, most of us do get along. But then again, a lot of those that are with Jagger, have a stable partner themselves. While I can’t state with absolute certainty that those that are part of a permanent couple didn’t have something against Kristof, I’d say to focus on those who aren’t in an outside relationship.” The male quickly rattled off an even smaller list of names. “Kristof, while he did sleep with many of us, he had something special going on with Jagger and Lorraine. That no doubt pissed some people off.”
“Makes sense. But…in what way was his relationship different with Jagger and his wife compared to others?” Turney asked.
James snorted. “Jagger may love spouting nonsense about everyone being in his heart equally, but it’s very obvious that certain people were held higher. Kristof being one of those people.”
“I’m not sure if there’s anything more we can tell you… Is there anything else you need? Or can we get back to work?” Ethan asked.
Octavius frowned, obviously thinking about the question. Turney did have something else to ask though.
“Do you know Kristof’s last name?”
Ethan blinked. “Uh, yes. It’s Berg.”
