Queen's crown

hostage

3rd person's pov :

"What do you think uncle ?" Beam asks Dave's father. He came to Dave's house early in the morning and almost woke Dave and his father up to discuss his suspicion. Forth couldn't come as he needed to attend his court.

"I think , we need to arrange the incidents in order."

Dave frowns "How can that help ?"

"It can ! Uncle wants to find a loose end , right ?" Beam looks at the ex. Chief minister of Jatars kingdom.

He nods "If a rope is tangled , we need to untangle it before using. Let's start with their marriage."

Beam nods and takes out a pen and a scroll "First ex. King arranged queen's crown to find his wife.

Then Queen mother cheated to win queen's crown and became his wife. So about this crime ex.King already knew so we can ignore this crime.

Then she came in Portulika Palace and fell in love with ex. Prince ?"

"Why question ?" Dave frowns.

"Because according to Sal she never loved ex. Prince. She used him to hide her crime." Beam thinks hard.

"Then she did a crime after her marriage that ex.king didn't know. But what ?" Dave's father frowns too.

"Maybe she poisoned ex. King first." Dave suggests.

"No that doesn't add up with the love letter. When that love letter was written ex. King was well and sound and Forth wasn't borned yet. So their affair happened before the poisioning. Which means there was another crime." Beam adds a question mark on his scroll.

"That's our lose end. If we find that crime, we can prove and reason out everything."

"How can we do it uncle ?" Beam whines.

"Maybe talk with someone who was close to them at that time."

"Who ?" Dave asks his father.

"Her personal servant Dee.
Ex. Prince's personal servant George and every other person whom she dismissed after Ex. King's death."

"They will talk ? I don't think P' Dee will help me. She even somehow tried to...." Beam sighs.

"Dee is not a bad person, prince Beam. I knew her back then."

"Not bad yet she tried to poison Beam." Dave rolls his eyes.

"That's what I find fascinating. Dee tried to poison you.. why ? Because she is working for Queen mother. But if she is working for her then why dismiss her as soon as ex. King died ?"

"Maybe, she knew too much. She could have gone against queen mother." Dave doubts.

"If that's the case she can do it anytime even after being dismissed."

Beam thinks hard in his mind "you mean , she has a hostage against every person she was associated with in the past ?"

Dave gasps "She is blackmailing P'Dee ?"

Beam looks at Dave "I don't know but ...

Dave's father takes the scroll from Beam's hand and circle Dee's name first "she is your first Target Beam. Find out everything about her. Every single thing that can be used to blackmail her."

Beam nods taking the scroll back then he frowns "wait you can see ?"

Dave looks at his father with wide eyes.

His father smiles "healer Phana confirmed last month that I was poisoned to be blind , deaf and dumb. But I somehow only lost my eyes. Maybe someone who poisoned me , did a mistake or wanted to do that mistake deliberately."