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.

staring, as though if he looked hard enough, he could find some version

Karen refused to look

She couldn’t.

Not now.

look in his

said casually, though his smile was as cold as ice. “Come now. This

to John. The fake kindness dropped from

know I’m not stupid,” the king said,

“All that drama in the prison… So

his throne, resting his chin

plan?” he asked, eyes gleaming. “Tell me, John. I’m so very curious. Entertain

his jaw, but inside, his

shook his head and looked

It was over.

had failed,

King Eglon’s trust. Then, from the inside, he would look for a way to help his

imagined… that

long before he ever

heart clenched in his chest. His breathing

of the

because of

because the

Karen.

Not just anyone.

Not just a friend.

The one his heart beat for whenever she smiled, whenever she walked into the room. But he never said a word, because she had always been drawn

Everyone knew it.

chance that things could work between her and Abuchi,

He respected Abuchi.

He loved Karen.

own happiness if it

instead… for a moment, just a moment,

Maybe when Karen gives up on Abuchi…

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