Chapter 339: What… What Am I Seeing?
His eyes widened. Time froze.
Karen.
She was being escorted in, head low, shoulders straight, face unreadable.
John couldn’t move.
What… what am I seeing?
Is my mind playing tricks on me? Isn’t she a prisoner like me? Or
But then King Eglon’s voice sliced through the air like a blade.
“Come over here, my dear,” he said, eyes gleaming with triumph.
But Karen didn’t move.
She stood frozen, her feet glued to the floor as if rooted by guilt. She could feel John’s eyes burning into her, full of confusion, betrayal… and hurt.
Her heart pounded. This wasn’t supposed to happen.
King Eglon had promised. He said no one would ever know. He said he would cover it all up, release them the next day, cancel the death sentence, pretend none of this had happened.
So why was he exposing her now?
Why now?
The king glanced over and noticed her hesitation. His expression darkened for a moment before he waved a lazy hand at the guard beside her. The man stepped forward and gave her a rough shove toward the center of the throne room.
Karen stumbled, then steadied herself, but still kept her head down, her shoulder length hair falling like a curtain over her face.
John stared at her, unmoving.
He didn’t speak.
He didn’t blink.
hard enough, he could
Karen refused to look
She couldn’t.
Not now.
look
as cold as ice. “Come now. This
his gaze shifted to John. The fake kindness dropped from his
I’m not stupid,” the king said, his voice sharp and
in the prison… So dramatic. So loyal. I almost
leaned forward on his throne, resting his chin
your grand plan?” he asked, eyes gleaming. “Tell me, John. I’m so
jaw, but
his head
It was over.
plan had failed,
coward in order to earn King Eglon’s trust. Then,
known… he hadn’t imagined… that there was
traitor who had already handed them over long before he ever stepped into the throne
in his chest.
of the
because of
because the traitor…
Karen.
Not just anyone.
Not just a friend.
girl he had quietly loved for years. The one his heart beat for whenever she smiled, whenever she walked into the room. But he never said
Everyone knew it.
the smallest chance that things could work between her and Abuchi, he
He respected Abuchi.
He loved Karen.
own happiness if it
Ruth instead… for a moment, just a moment, hope had bloomed in John’s
maybe after the war. Maybe when Karen
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