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Wicken closed the door behind her with a click, the kindly lines on his face deep with worry. “Sorry, my lady. I know this is most unusual. But I thought it important that you know.”
Sophia swallowed against sudden unease. “Is something amiss?”
“My daughter just sent word from the village. The Justice of the Peace has been asking questions about your husband’s death.”
“What questions?”
He rubbed his right arm, the arm her husband had broken when Wicken refused to tell Richard where she was hiding.
Sophia fought not to stare, not to choke on the guilt that burned in her chest at the stiff way the arm hung at his side.
“What enemies Harding might have had. Same as he did right after the death.”
“Has anyone said anything?”
“Not as far as I know, but it’s only a matter of time before one of the villagers lets something slip.”
Sophia’s hands clenched into fists at her sides. Sir Camden wouldn’t find anything. She wouldn’t allow it. Not when that slip might lead him directly to her husband’s killer—her father.
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