Planned Response
Alexander took note of Lady Parthia's guess with an agreeing nod.
Indeed, now that he thought about it, it made no sense for the Heeat family to force Vidiyan into such a suicidal attack.
Without Baron Lamp luring him to the ambush, an attempt on the life had virtually no chance of success.
Alexander did not believe a ducal family would be this dumb- to discard such a core force in such a reckless manner.
There were much better ways to plot against him.
So the much more likely explanation was some mid level bureaucrat had gotten these orders and then decided to follow it to the tee no matter what.
The order was to kill Alexander and it was Vidiyan's headache on how he was going to do that- through hook or crook, which baron died and which baron lived was not his concern.
Alexander let out a small snigger in his heart upon reaching this reasonable conclusion.