He paused.
"About you."
Julian held his expression still and said nothing.
"Your behavior before I sent you away." The Duke's eyes remained on him, steady and without accusation, simply delivering information. "What you were doing. The obsession you had developed." Another pause. "With your mother. With your sister."
The words landed without decoration, and the Duke let them sit in the air between them without rushing past them.
Julian looked at him and waited.
"Liam found out," the Duke continued. "He gathered what he needed. Evidence, accounts, enough to make the case irrefutable." His voice remained flat throughout. "And then he kept it. He has been using it since."
The carriage moved through the intersection as the delivery cart cleared the road, and the street sounds dropped back to a murmur. The cluster of people on the corner turned to watch them go.
Julian absorbed this without changing anything on Kraven's face.
