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 software, and worked on

mysterious man's face was displayed clearly on the screen, with

it was none

surveillance cameras near this

surveillance videos that I asked

around the garden for a while before seemingly

used some

the video again and paused it right

reason, an ominous feeling rose in

the royal palace? If so, he might secretly

threat

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

forces in the royal palace that I was able

my heart, I walked out

go back to

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

to our bedroom, I found that she was

she slept, my breathing gradually calmed

to my dear wife,

‘'Good night, Jennifer.’' 

next day, I awoke early in

so that I could inform them about the hidden danger in

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

needed to rest

Jennifer's POV: 

woke up to find the other side of the bed

that Anthony had already

I asked

to have a meeting with the elders.He told us not to wake you up so that you could

deciding to go and talk to Anthony after breakfast to see if there was any progress in the

a simple and elegant dress,

I was about to go out, however, the maid suddenly stopped

Smith, this parcel

the maid brought me a well-sealed cardboard box.I raised my eyebrows in surprise

could it be? I hadn't bought anything

thought the possibilities, I

was probably a gift from one of my

just wanted to give me

or Skylar? I was excited to see what the gift was, as well as who it was from, since there was no name or label on

a pair of scissors, which I

packed than usual, so it took

help but gasp at the beautiful, delicate gift box sitting

face widened as I lifted the

with an exquisite ribbon, the gift box was somewhat heavy, making it hard for me to guess what was

I

it's chocolate from

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

glass bottle, in which there was the corpse of a

stepped