Chapter 255. A Lifetime of Regret

William stayed with Martin until it was time to take his body away. He stood with his brother's blood drenched over his clothes as if he'd just came out of a pool of it. Doris didn't realize the crowd had thinned out around them until she glanced around.

Only a few guards remained as if they didn't know what else to do. Enzo stood near the back of the room and Beth was outside of it as if she couldn't stand being inside. Doris didn't blame her in the slightest. She would have done the same.

Doris hesitantly stepped up to William, but he refused to lift his gaze to her. He looked... out of it. As if he left his body and there was only a hollow shell walking around in his place. It pained her to see him that way.

"Let's go back to the camp..." Doris whispered. It was too soon to go back to the palace, she was afraid it would all fall in on him if they did something like that. "We don't have to be here anymore."

William said nothing. Doris reached her hand out f