"Our relationship was not one that is typical of brothers. Let's just say, if any of our family friends knew what we got up to when we were alone, it would have caused quite the scandal." Arkady was better at keeping secrets than Ashley, but they had managed to hide the nature of their relationship.

"I didn't know he was dead, no. I rushed home from Paris once I came back, and found his body myself. I had promised I would return home to him, and show him everything I had learned in my time abroad."