Chapter 3 – New mission

“I’ll need to call in my finding to my superior, Kat can you”

Kat’s reply came even before he had finished “Yep”

Jay headed up the hall out of earshot pulling his com screen from his pocket, he clicked on his superior’s secured line and was greeted with “Jay report!”

“Did corporal Gus, report to you? Have you seen our preliminary?”

“Negative”

Confused Jay continued “I sent Corporal Gus back to you almost 20mins ago, he should have that document in your hand by now,”

“You fill me in, I need something to go on now! and your explanation will be better than any report”

Jay quickly brought him up to speed, filling him in on his gut feeling about the assignation attempt, the princess’s safety and the listening devices discovered in her private apartments. He also requested to have his team be delegated to the princess’s protection detail.

With confirmation of their new mission and no news to report about the Kings current condition he clicked off the line. He took another moment to re-organise his thoughts before returning to the sitting parlour.

Shimel and Lacy had settled the princess with a tea tray and biscuits. The colour had started to return to her face and her hands weren’t shaking quiet as bad.

They all looked up at his arrival, he put a professional smile on his face while he informed the princess that his team had been assigned as her protection detail until this was all sorted out and the perpetrators found. “There is also no news of your fathers’ condition”

It had been 6 hours since he was shot, if he was still being operated on the prospects of him surviving weren’t good at all.

Then he remembered something else that had been bothering him. When he placed his hand on the princess’s arm to stop her entering the apartments, he had felt something concealed in her sleeve. How to tackle this, she must trust him before he could bring this up but if this had something to do with her safety he needed to know now. He never was good at playing the long game, so direct questions it would be. He turned to Kat and tossing the listening devices in the sound proof bag to her he ordered “Get these to the Benny and I want both of you to try and track their origin and where they were transmitting to.” Kat with a sharp nod, headed for the door “and Kat this stays only between the core, no transfers . . .and send me Beeves and Boris with the pieces of Royal jewellery” again Kat nodded and continued.

That gave him about 20mins to work out what the Princess was hiding.

He sat on the seat adjacent to her lounge, he swiped a biscuit from the tray and took a bite, once he had finished the biscuit, he turned his gaze on the princess and quietly asked “is what you’re concealing in your sleeve, have anything to do with your safety”