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“Do you –” Sebastian made to push away fro his ould kill him if she knew he had been with another woman as partly clothed, even with Edward, Dominic and Peter present
They watched as Eliza eased a folded piece of parchment out of the waistband of her breeches, and placed it carefully in the middle of the table
Edward picked it up and giving her measured look, slowly unfolded it He swore as he read the contents before raising his eyes to meet hers He wasn’t certain if he should be annoyed she had kept it froan’s reach for so long Scraggan’s determination to take her alive suddenly made much more sense
“Is this what Scraggan could be after?” His voice was harsh as he dropped the parchment onto the table for the others to see “Why didn’t you tell me you had this before?”
“Because I couldn’t be certain you weren’t working for Scraggan” Eliza hiccupped
“I fought Scraggan’s men, Eliza!”
“You don’t know Scraggan and the lengths he would go to This inforallows for treason”
“It’s a list of ships, dates and ti the list to Peter to read
“What are the codes on the end?” Edward er to one side for now
“PP2SS, ht the codes up and has a coaveto the War Office and left us with these and two other sheets I had two and Jemima has two”
They watched as Eliza withdrew another sheet of folded parchment from the opposite side of her waistband and tossed it onto the table before re-doing her breeches and tucking her shirt back in
“A list of contacts Sweet Jesus” Peter whispered, staring at the list of na places “Who did your father have working for him?” He raised shocked eyes to Eliza Whoever they were they had been very thorough and knew exactly the kind of inforan’s downfall With inforh people prepared to bargain for mercy
“I don’t know” Eliza replied “Father never told us He said that not knoould keep us safe but I got the feeling it was soe who knew us Father didn’t want us to know because he didn’t want us acting strangely around them”
“Makes sense” Edward replied, wondering how their father could have allowed thehter of his would have been iers and not allowed to return until safe to do so
He paused as the iun to think of himself as a future father?