"Me? My dear girl, I have been out of town and could not have possibly dispatched your brother. I... am sorry that he was such a monster as that where someone had to do what they did, but it was not I who did it." He was confused and rightly so as to why she was asking him such a question. He did understand why someone would think he could kill a man, after all, he was an officer in Her Majesty's army. But Thorne Culpepper had never really bothered to get to know Magnus as a person and didn't know him to be anything other than a man of many vices. He didn't know the truth, all he knew was what he had read in the tabloids when he got home and that it was the polite thing to do to offer his condolences to the grieving family even if the man had been a real scumbag in life.

He looked down at the beauty and then said, "I haven't seen you all since we were children. Other than this... interesting turn of events in your life, how do you fair?"