Outcast: The Alpha King's Beloved

Amelia's POV: 

After the meeting, Morgan and I headed back to our room.Thinking about everything that had happened since last night, my heart felt heavy.Larry, that bastard! Why couldn't he just let me go? 

"What's wrong, honey? You don't look so happy.Is it because you need to get close to Larry to drug him? If you don't want to do it, I'll tell Mr.Jones right now."

Morgan wrapped his arms around my waist from behind.

"There must be another way.I don't want you to force yourself."

But I shook my head and sighed heavily.

"It's not that, honey.I know you feel sorry for me, but I have to go through with this.It's the only way."

I turned around to look into his eyes sadly.

"It's just, I was thinking that if I were to get close to him, I'd need to convince him that we broke up..."

My voice trailed off.It would hurt Morgan too much.

Sure enough, tears welled up in his eyes but he stayed strong for me.

"It's no big deal.If it means saving you, I'm willing to pretend we broke up!"

"But, honey, it's not fair to you!"

I hugged him tightly, wishing all our troubles were behind us.

"It's all my fault!"

Thinking of the nude photos, I felt more and more ashamed.

"It's all my fault," I repeated sadly.

"If it weren't for me, we wouldn't be in this situation."

"Don't say that! Honey, it's not your fault!"

Morgan lowered his head and kissed me, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"It's all my fault! If I had been able to protect you well, nothing would have happened."

Morgan was always so nice to me.He was so considerate and thoughtful.

"We both didn't do anything wrong, honey.This is all Larry's fault.I'm just grateful we got to meet again.Without you, I wouldn't have had the will to live on!" I murmured tearfully.

"Honey, if we want to convince Larry that we broke up, we need to sleep in different bedrooms.But don't worry.Once we catch Larry, we can finally be together in peace."

Morgan stroked my hair to comfort me.

I nodded.

right.I'm sure we'll have our

spoke, I reluctantly let

us.You should go to bed early.You've been so busy taking care of me that you haven't slept

"Okay,"

Morgan promised.

bed early too, my dear.If anything happens, just call me.I love

stood alone in the bedroom in a daze.I went to the cabinet and took out the photos Larry

rubbed more salt into

so much! He had tortured me

needed to pay the

and took out a lighter.I lit

there were only ashes left, I breathed a sigh of

though I knew that Larry must have had copies, it felt cathartic to vent my anger like

then, I received a

carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, okay? The past might be

I felt touched.

herself from me, but the kind girl still treated me the same

considerate and good

you, Jennifer.I will be

hitting send, I felt more determined than ever to defeat

Anthony's POV: 

I finally put down the last of my work, I found that

let's have dinner

saw me tuck away the last document, she

"Good idea, babe."

making her wait for me.I took her

when Jennifer invited her to dinner, my mother simply smiled

you.I'm feeling very tired today.I'll

up to her

your queen out to dinner.Don't starve your wife

I were soon driven out

shut in our faces, Jennifer and I exchanged

just giving us

she insisted, we might as well," I said to Jennifer

a candlelit

eyes grew

"Okay!"

declared to Carl that I was going to have a candlelit dinner with my queen,

took Jennifer to the royal restaurant, where

I had specifically asked them to clear the entire restaurant for us tonight.I took

"Please, my queen."

dimly lit for