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“What do you mean, you don’t know?”
“I mean exactly that. I don’t know. It’s impossible to say when this person will make a move that requires me to act. Right now, all I can do is watch the person.”
Eleanor’s eyebrows furrowed. She had noticed Byron passing by this townhouse earlier. That was when the Duke of Winnett was here. It had looked as if Byron was going to go up the steps when he saw the duke’s carriage. After seeing it, he proceeded down the street. She had assumed he had wished to wait until they didn’t have company before talking to them, but what if the duke was a suspect? What if he didn’t want the duke to be around when he spoke to them? But why should the duke worry him?
The duke worries you. Something is wrong with him. You feel it. Maybe Byron senses it, too.
“While I will accept your answer for now, I hope you don’t make me wait too long to find out who you’re watching,” her father told Byron. “I can’t pay you forever.”
“I won’t need long to narrow things down.”
“It’s already been a month, and you haven’t solved the case,” her father pointed out.
“Some cases take a while. This particular person is intelligent. There hasn’t been another threat to Eleanor’s life because this person has changed tactics.”
“What tactics would that be?”
“I have my suspicions, but I’d rather not say until I’m certain. Suffice it to say, since this person changed their strategy, I need to change mine.”
Her father didn’t look pleased by the answer but nodded in acceptance.
Eleanor bit her lower lip. Would the sudden interest the Duke of Winnett had in her qualify as a chance in tactic? He hadn’t paid any attention to her before Mr. Jasper’s ball. But why would he want to marry her if he originally wanted to kill her? That didn’t make any sense.
“Is there anything else you came by to say?” her father asked.
“No, that was it.” Byron rose to his feet. “I should leave.”
Her father walked him to the door, but she remained sitting as she contemplated what it might mean if it turned out that the Duke of Winnett had nefarious intentions.
