Chapter 92: The only way to protect the kingdom...
Noah POV
"What do you mean you don’t know?"
"Your majesty," Kurtis’s eyes glazed coldly "I’ve already provided a detailed analysis of the situation. There’s nothing more I have to say to you. I have no idea who is posing as King Tanner and there’s not a lot of detail available,".
I stood there feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place as I tried to read Kurtis’ expression to know if he was lying to me. Then a thought struck me...
"Princess Jade," I said with excitement "Perhaps she might know who is posing as her father or something. Quick, Xavier," I turned to him, "Send for Princess Jade this instance, I need to ask her a few questions,".
"We thought about that too, Your Majesty," Xavier said quietly "And we went ahead to ask her without truly revealing our intention and she said she had not seen her father for the past three years. She was schooling abroad and only came home when she had a need, it was met immediately. From the looks of it, they don’t have a close relationship or something about how he’s always busy and she just resigned to her fate of communicating with him via phone calls or texts,".
"Phone calls?" my eyes widened in surprise "Did she say that his voice sounded different?"
"No," Xavier shook his head "We also asked her that. Your Majesty, we have to do something now and fast. They’ll soon be here. An hour ago, Kurtis sent out spyware that captured ships coming from the northern seas. They’re so tiny that you cannot easily spot them. Whoever is coming to you is coming purely for war and not because they want to rescue the princess,".
I kept quiet for a moment, trying to figure out what exactly was going on. If this was the situation then it could only mean one thing Princess Jade may be working with them.
"Do you think Princess Jade is in on this?" My gaze swivelled from one man to the other "Because I’m surprised, she’s acting rather too comfortable with everything and refused to call her father to tell him that she’s fine. Don’t you find that strange,".
"She’s not too intelligent to pull that off," Kurtis said with a shrug "Princess Jade is not smart enough... and also, she’s banking on her father forcing you to take her as Luna. So, she’s calm. Don’t worry about her, your majesty,".