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,

face was displayed clearly on the screen, with every pixel of

doubt that it was none other

surveillance cameras near this

found the surveillance videos that

all carefully watched the screen as Larry wandered around the

must have used some magic

and paused it

some reason, an ominous

palace? If so, he

a threat that we

for a 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

Mr.Jones," the head

only after the deployment of the forces in the royal palace that I

in my heart, I

go back to Jennifer as soon as

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

I found that she

her peaceful face as she slept, my breathing gradually

next to my dear wife, I closed

‘'Good night, Jennifer.’' 

next day, I awoke early in

I could inform them about the hidden danger in the royal palace, as

didn't want to wake her up, so I just leaned over and planted

she needed to rest as much as

Jennifer's POV: 

the other side

seemed that Anthony

is Anthony?" I

went to have a meeting with the elders.He told us not

maid, deciding to go and talk to Anthony after

changed into a simple and elegant

was about to go out, however, the maid

this parcel just

brought me a well-sealed cardboard box.I raised my eyebrows

it be? I hadn't bought anything

I thought the possibilities, I

was probably a gift

to give me a

or Skylar? I was excited to see what the gift was, as well as who it was from, since there

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

usual, so it

but gasp at the beautiful, delicate gift box sitting inside

lifted the gift box and weighed

was somewhat heavy, making it

could it be?" I murmured to myself

chocolate from

as I opened the gift box, I

bottle, in which there was the corpse

as I stepped back, trying to