“But I know he was here yesterday,” I said. “I heard him talking to Max about getting the equipment, and this is where they keep it. I suppose he could have waited in the car…” I glanced around the room where we’d found Max and Tony, now empty except for the table and chairs. “Where’s the note and bottle? Taken into evidence I guess, but if you could sniff those, maybe you’d know who brought them.”

“My sense of smell isn’t that good.”

“It looked like Guy’s writing, and the wording was his.” I knew I was grasping at straws. However impossible it seemed, Karl’s findings only confirmed that Guy hadn’t been alive six hours ago to kill Max and Tony.

“Dr. Aberquero thinks Guy has been dead since the night before last,” Paige said. “But you and Hope both spoke to him past midnight that day, which means Karl was close enough to get a scent, right? Was it Guy?”

Karl lifted the shirt. “Is this the man I smelled the other night? I couldn’t tell you. I think I faintly detected this scent, but there were others too, and he was wearing so much cologne, I couldn’t be sure.”

“Is there cologne on that shirt?” Paige asked.

“No.”

I remembered thinking Guy must have been heading out on the town that night, because I’d never known him to wear a scent.

I glanced at Lucas. He was trying to listen, but his ear was attached to his cell phone, as it had been since we’d arrived.

“How could it be done?” I asked Paige. “Fake being someone else? And do it so well that it fooled his entire gang?”

Lucas hung up and pocketed his phone. “The most obvious explanation is the nonsupernatural. Guy has an identical twin.”

I pulled out a chair and sat. “So, we have twins, playing the same man, fighting over what action to take with the Cabals. One wants to help Carlos kill his family, the other balks, the first kills the second. Very…Hollywood.”

“Agreed,” Lucas said.

“I don’t think that’s the answer,” Karl murmured.

I glanced at him, but only got that distant look as his thumb rubbed his jawline.

“On to supernatural means, then,” Lucas said. “The most obvious is a glamour spell. Under the circumstances, however, I can’t imagine it.”

“With a glamour spell, you have to expect to see someone else,” Paige explained. “For example, if Lucas and I left and I said I was coming back, then cast a glamour spell to make him look like me, you’d see me walk into the room. But if I didn’t say I was coming back, there’s only a fifty-fifty chance it would work. And if you expected Lucas, you’d see right through it.”

“It’s a temporary illusion,” Lucas said. “Prolonged use isn’t possible.”