Outcast: The Alpha King's Beloved

Anthony's POV: 

Once Jennifer fell asleep, I still couldn't get over the feeling of uneasiness, so I got up from the bed.

Not wanting to disturb her sleep, I walked out of the bedroom as quietly as I could and went to the monitoring room.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw my attendants watching the surveillance videos as per my instructions.

"Have you found anything?" I asked them.

"Mr.Jones, we've been checking the surveillance videos from the time period before and after Mrs.Jones was attacked, but we haven't found anything suspicious yet," the head attendant _ replied respectfully.

I nodded.

"I'll watch the videos together with you.We'll get the work done faster."

"Yes, Mr.Jones."

The attendant led me to a screen and opened up a surveillance video for me.

"Please watch this one."

Motioning for the attendant to leave me be, I focused on the video playing in front of me.

The cameras were on 24/7, recording every moment of every day.

Needless to say, it was a monotonously tedious task to watch the surveillance videos, but in order not to miss even the slightest clue, we had to watch everything from beginning to end without taking our eyes off of it.

As long as we could find a clue to catch Larry, all this effort would be worth it.

Calming myself down, I watched the video, playing it at double the speed since there was nothing of significance happening.

Time passed by.

All of a sudden, something caught my eye.

A strange figure appeared on the screen.

It was a man who kept looking around.

His movements were strange and dodgy.

Judging from his clothes, he wasn't a palace guard.

And most importantly, his physique looked highly similar to Larry's.

"Come and take a look at this," I said to my attendants, pausing the video.

"Do any of you recognize this man? Is he one of the guards?"

"No, Mr.Jones.We've never seen him before," the head attendant replied solemnly.

With a nod, I rewound the video a few seconds and played it, watching that particular section of the mysterious man's appearance over and over again.

After a while, I asked, "Can you zoom in and make the video clearer so that we can see his face?"

A technician immediately ran over and bowed.

"Of course, Mr.Jones."

computer, fed the video into a software, and worked on

face was displayed clearly on the screen,

that it was none other than

the surveillance cameras near this one!" I ordered my

found the surveillance videos

carefully watched the screen as Larry wandered around the garden for a while before

used some

rewound the video again and paused

reason, an ominous

if Larry was still hiding inside the royal palace? If so, he might

threat that we

while, I turned to the attendants and ordered, "Dispatch a few of the royal guards to guard the palace.Strengthen the defense around the perimeters, and also increase the protection around

head attendant replied

deployment of the forces in the royal palace

in my heart, I walked out of the

go back to Jennifer as soon as

and trustworthy, I wouldn't be able to put my heart to rest until I could assure Jennifer's safety with my own

I returned to our bedroom, I found that she was still

breathing gradually calmed

next to my dear wife, I closed my

‘'Good night, Jennifer.’' 

next day, I awoke early

them about the hidden danger in the royal palace, as

still sleeping, and I didn't want to wake her up, so

needed to rest

Jennifer's POV: 

up to find the other

seemed that Anthony had

I asked

the elders.He told us

go and talk to

changed into a simple and elegant dress,

about to go out, however, the

parcel just arrived for

brought me a well-sealed cardboard box.I raised

I

the

gift from one of my

they just wanted to give me

Skylar? I was excited to see what the gift was, as well as

the maid to bring me a pair of scissors, which I used to personally unseal

so it took me some

couldn't help but gasp at the beautiful, delicate gift

smile on my face widened as I lifted the gift box

was somewhat heavy, making it hard for me to guess what was

be?" I

it's chocolate

soon as I opened the gift box, I dropped it back onto the table

in which there was

shook as I stepped back, trying to put as much