His Sweet Little Mate by Obticeo Decatect

It took two weeks for the news of Abby conceiving the king's firstborn to reach the capital, but less than twenty four hours after that, rumors spread like wildfire back in the Silver Moon pack. "It's as if this is all premeditated, to create pressure on both you and the Queen." Dax clicked his tongue, feeling disgusted with their dirty tricks. "What are they even trying to do?"

He couldn't understand the motive of the person who planned all this crap. They had their doubts and some people didn't fit the roles at all.

"Were they being used blindly?" The royal gamma thought of a lot of things, but he still couldn't solve this mystery.

"What if they were finally letting the power hunger consume them violently?" Micah looked deep in thought.

"Eventually it was all working in that dark sorcerer's favor," Dax provided his insight, his expression a mixture of scowl and chagrin.

Even a blind person could understand this, but dwelling on it was of no use. "Is there any news from Mirella?"

"She must be back soon, she said she needs a few days at least to investigate that place thoroughly before leaving," the royal gamma told Micah what the witch told him. "How is Abby doing?" "She still has a long way to go." The king was being evasive, but how could his gamma not understand what he wasn't saying?

"Give her time, she will come around." Dax didn't look that bothered. "She is stronger than she lets on."

"That she is," Micah agreed.

They both saw how the girl immersed herself in the investigation to reduce the effect of those rumors circulating left and right out there on herself.

"It will help get my mind off of it," she said, when he asked her to just give it a rest for a few days.

However, it wasn't easy for her even then, because no matter what she did, Abby felt like people around her were pinning her with this strange gaze.

Some at least faked decorum, but the majority of the boot lickers she accumulated since her return to her so called old pack had been evading her.

"People's hearts are even stranger than their minds." Abby thought to herself as she couldn't help but shake the image of the few maid servants that were just whispering until they were going to bite each other's ears off.

"Stop, Alyssa." Abby grabbed her maid's hand, because the girl looked like she would blow her top any second now.

were talking in really low voices, until

not worth it, let's get on with our work," the queen told her maid, who was accompanying Abby

are you gossiping about all day long?" A stern voice echoed behind her and immediately, Abby could see those maids jump out

scared that they were caught in the act. "Oh, we still have something to do in the kitchen, pardon us,

spat at them, before she turned around and

grateful, because she was

clicked her tongue, feeling Abby was too softhearted. "You are the Queen, you don't have to tolerate

remember that," Abby smiled at the witch. "So I reckon you just got

her green eyes flashed. "Twenty minutes. I need a nice, long and hot bath after wandering in

on the place, she hurriedly called over Alyssa.

minutes later, Mirella finally made an appearance in the now makeshift study of Abby, where she could see a mini

table, where she had her first proper meal in days. Seeing

know what I expected by asking you to go there, but if you did find anything strange, we can analyze our theories now." Abby was being genuine with the witch, when

seen in my life," Mirella began after finally pushing her plate away. "There are traces of both magic and dark energy there.

find out?" Abby was a little bit excited now. She already sensed what Mirella had to say, she just wanted to find out why her instinct told her to be extremely careful around there. "Something very interesting." Mirella's eyes flashed again. "If my hunch is correct, a great battle seemed to have taken place

guessed the good part, and then chatted away with the

amount of evidence to connect it to the place where Calpin was confined by that great witch all those years ago. "And another fun part is, the pathway was created during that battle, that was why the air there is a bit strange." Mirella's voice was brimming

had confined Calpin, then the cave should be behind those rusty gates, right? So the cave was

powerful magic, the great witch indeed lived up to her

the invisible barrier before it seems to serve as some sort of layered constraining spell." Mirella revealed

was too weird to be coincidental, at the same

flawless? And Calpin's prison was there?" Abby asked the

into the air around there suspiciously similar to Calpin's dark magic." Mirella was a hundred percent sure after realizing this part. "And

She didn't believe they would discover such a place just

Silver Moon pack." Mirella folded her

to live..." Abby immediately understood the witch's words. "Did she end up here to keep an eye out on