Last Chance

The King let me go when he realized how determined I was. This was going to be our last chance at finding out who the King's enemies were, so there was no use beating about the bush when we could just go ahead and get this all over with.

I walked silently behind Terah as we passed by the main roads. This was the first time I had been outside the palace since the Alpha’s fake death and it was far gloomier than I thought.

The usually happy people going about their business were nowhere to be found as the people on the road had dreary expressions on their faces as they went about their day. No one looked happy. There was a slowness to their gait and the atmosphere was so sad that even the early evening looked darker than it usually did.

As we went closer and closer to the harem, more depressed-looking people littered the roads. Some were just wailing out in the open while the others walked briskly and some stared.

“What's going on?” I asked Terah, beginning to feel uncomfortable abou