Unexpected Rise of Leonard Storm

Chapter 144

After a grueling day of training new recruits, avoiding Dorian, and keeping well away from the king’s watchful eye, Bolton  was almost at his rooms, more than ready to sleep, when he noticed that two of his men were missing from their posts outside the Great Hall. The two remaining men winced as he stopped dead.

It wasn’t unusual for guards to occasionally miss a shift. If someone was sick, if they had some family tragedy, Bolton  always found a replacement. But two missing guards, with no replacement in sight … “Someone had better start talking,” he ground out.

One of them cleared their throats—a newer guard, who had just finished his training three months before. The other one was relatively new, too, which was why he’d assigned them to night duty outside the empty Great Hall. But he’d put them under the supposedly responsible and watchful eyes of the two other guards, both of whom had been there for years.