Chapter 785: Bad To Worse
"I don’t think that woman is going to show up, whoever she is," Dora muttered, her gaze fixed on the horizon outside the window. They’d been waiting for hours, the tension in the room thickening with each passing minute. "She might have already left Petrovia... so that is why she is not worried about all this."
Kael didn’t respond immediately, his own thoughts racing as he checked his watch again, growing more impatient with every tick of the second hand. He knew of course this was a possibility but what Dora did not know that none of the airplanes fying out of Petrovia since yesterday were going to their destinations. Every passenger on the airplane was being interrogated using lie stimulators and what not to find the kidnapper.
So, there was another possibility... that the woman was indeed fearless and was still in Petrovia.
Just then, his phone buzzed sharply, slicing through the stillness. Quickly, he answered, "Yes?"
"Sir, we’ve gathered some intel on the other kidnapper", the voice of his security personnel on the other end spoke quickly, "It seems she hired this man we’ve been questioning, but according to him, he’s never actually seen her face. She was always masked during their encounters. Even when he helped her push the cart in which she kidnapped Princess Isidora, she was wearing a lot of makeup that hid her real features."
Kael’s expression remained stony. "Anything else?"
"Yes, something odd," the voice hesitated briefly before continuing. "He once asked her why she was so certain she wouldn’t face any consequences for her actions. Her response was... peculiar. He said she muttered something about royalty being untouchable by law. But here’s the thing—there are no royal Petrovanian women currently active in any public or governmental role. The only women connected to Petrovia’s royal line would be your mother and... well, it couldn’t possibly be her, sir."
Kael’s grip tightened around the phone as his mind raced. His mother? Involved in something like this? Impossible. "Keep digging. Find out if there’s any other connection," he muttered before disconnecting the call.
"Royalty?" There was no royalty that was above the law but of course if it was someone directly, some things could be twisted around...But then who was this woman?