No one should have been able to pluck up the Beddingsford title and use it for their own ends. He and Draper, his superior in covert operations and head of the Foreign Office, had looked into the matter extensively, and received reports from their assets on the Continent and beyond regarding the family. Or lack thereof, as the case was. But only they knew that, which was why they had picked up the title for Griff’s present assignment.
