Modern Princess

Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Beckham's POV

I threw myself into the case after I left Kedudien. I didn't want to think about Renoford or what she was feeling much less what I was feeling. What I really wanted to tell her was how I felt about her, but I knew if I did, she probably wouldn't believe me. I had been lying for so long that I doubted she would even trust me to tie her shoe.

Sighing, I scanned my eyes over the files laid out in front of me. My team had been shuffling through these pages all night and we still felt like we were at a dead end.

"I don't understand what we're missing. We have all the evidence here, Beckham, but we just can't figure this out. Clearly the rebel leader is someone on the inside, but we thought they would have messed up by now. What are we missing?" Eb frustratedly grumbled, scrolling through the online evidence he had in front of him.

I ran another hand through my hair. I felt like this had been my routine for the past couple of days. Go through the evidence, get frustrated, run a hand through my hair, think, start over.

I hated this. Every puzzle I had put together was falling apart and I couldn't find the right piece to keep it all together.

Even though we were pretty sure there was more than one leader, we didn't even have a lead on one of the leaders. 

It was one person. I should've be able to at least...

One...person...

"Eb, will you pull up the rebel symbol that you cross matched?"

He clicked through a few files with weariness written all over his face. Finally, the familiar pictures that I had looked through dozens of times was sitting in front of me. Mocking me. But this time, something different stuck out to me. I laughed a loud and crazy laugh that made some of my team jump, but that only made my adrenaline start pumping.

I finally remembered where I saw the rebel symbol.

"Beck...What do you know?" Nate cautiously asked.

"I've got to fly back to Kedudien."

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Ren's POV

I was sitting in the back of one of our town cars as I rode with Griffin to an unknown destination. Originally, this would have been the part where I would have told Griffin that I was already smitten by a young man with a different identity, but now...Now things were different.

I shook thoughts of Beckham from my mind and focused on the task at hand. I was going to have a nice date with Griffin and then I would propose the idea of marriage. Simple.

"How far out are we from this mystery location?" I asked Griffin with a smile.

"Not too far now. We should be able to see it here any second..."

I was surprised to see us pull up to an old, dirty building with paint peeling off the edges.

"You sure know how to pick them. First a sketchy taco truck, now this," I teased, staring out of the car window.

"Just wait for it. You'll see," he smiled at me.

Normally, I wouldn't have thought anything of a smile at me especially Griffin smiling at me, but this time it was weird. I had never seen Griffin nervous before, but I almost thought that this was that moment. Maybe he knew...What if he knew what was going on? What if he knew what I was going to tell him? Maybe more like ask him...

What if him being nervous meant he didn't want to marry me? What if this date was his way of telling me that he didn't like me? What if he-

Stop. I had to stop overthinking this. Overthinking led to loss of confidence and I needed to exude confidence. I wouldn't be queen ready if I wasn't confident.