“I told you before, her face was completely obliterated.”
“And?” I ask in a bored voice.
“And the body looked like hers! I mean, f**k—it had Marina’s clothes, Marina’s jewelry. You saw the signet ring she wore all the time. She never took that thing off. I gave it to you myself.”
“Almost as if Marina gave it to the corpse when she dressed it up.”
“Okay!” Yulian says, sounding frustrated with himself as well as me. “It feels obvious now. She clearly f****d up the corpse’s face to hide the fact that it wasn’t her.”
“You burned the body,” I growl.
“Yes, I burned the damn body. I was trying to protect you!” he says, raising his voice. “I knew that her death would be pinned on you. Bad marriage, dead wife, the husband is the first person people look at. I knew that Rodion would want to se
