SIXTY-FIVE

UNKNOWN POV

I stand at my post just away from the kitchen door in the back garden, my shift is nearly finished, and I am surprised when the King and Queen exit into the back garden and then go into the woods, I am surprised that they are alone. I look around and see that I am alone as well, so I follow them. I listen as the king explains how he knew the rogue leader and what all that was with that female the rogue was talking about.

Being of a reasonably high rank, I could always mask my scent to a degree, but after I started selling Royal information, it is something I have been slowly working on over the years so I can nearly cover it completely now; I move into a bush not that far in front of the King but still behind the Queen, as her werewolf's sense of smell might still be able to pick up just a small hint of my scent.

I have been holding onto the needle that has my altered sedative in it, as the King makes his way closer to his Queen, I remove the cover from the needle and inse