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."

the video into a

mysterious man's face was displayed clearly on the

doubt that it was none

cameras near this one!" I ordered

found the surveillance

wandered around the garden for a while before seemingly disappearing into thin

have used some magic

the video again and paused it right before the moment Larry

some reason, an ominous feeling

hiding inside the royal palace? If so, he might secretly attack us

a threat that we couldn't

few of the royal guards to guard the palace.Strengthen the defense around the perimeters, and also increase the protection around Jennifer and my mother.Arrange the guards to work in two shifts.Don't give the enemy any chance

the head attendant replied

the forces in the royal palace that I was able to breathe

heart, I

back to Jennifer

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

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

gradually calmed down,

to my dear wife, I closed

‘'Good night, Jennifer.’' 

I awoke

I could inform them about the hidden danger in the royal palace, as well as to discuss the arrangement

her up, so I just leaned over and planted a

she needed to rest as much as

Jennifer's POV: 

woke up to find the other side of the bed

Anthony

Anthony?" I

with the elders.He told us not to wake you up so that you

at how thoughtful Anthony was.I nodded at the maid, deciding to go and talk to Anthony after breakfast to

a simple and elegant dress, and

to go out,

parcel

box.I raised my eyebrows in surprise as I eyed the

I hadn't bought anything

thought the

probably a gift

just wanted to give

what the gift was, as well as who it was from, since there was no name or label on the

a pair of scissors, which I used to personally

was more tightly packed than usual, so it took me some time to cut through all

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

as I lifted the gift

with an exquisite ribbon, the gift box was somewhat heavy, making it hard

could it be?" I

it's chocolate

I dropped it back onto the table in

glass bottle, in which there was the corpse of

stepped back, trying to put as much distance as