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.

behind them were talking in really low voices, until Abby couldn't hear, Alyssa could hear most of their

with our work," the queen told her maid, who was accompanying

gossiping about all day long?" A stern voice echoed behind her and immediately, Abby could see

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

bunch of scaredy cats," the woman spat at them, before she turned around and floated to Abby's side.

now." The girl was genuinely grateful, because she was feeling a

teaching them a lesson," Mirella clicked her tongue, feeling Abby was too softhearted. "You are the Queen, you don't have

the witch. "So I

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

on the place, she hurriedly called over Alyssa. "Get the

makeshift study of Abby, where she could see a mini spread of delicious food on

her first proper meal in

didn't 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 the latter asked

pushing her plate away. "There are traces of both magic and dark energy there. It's no

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

a dark mage?" Abby almost guessed the good part, and then chatted away

a substantial 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

great witch had confined Calpin, then the cave should be behind

found the whole thing very fascinating, if this was the case, to be able to wield such powerful magic, the great witch indeed lived up to her reputation, and Abby felt her admiration

it seems to serve as some sort of layered constraining spell." Mirella revealed her findings and Abby couldn't

weird to be coincidental, at the same time,

theory is flawless? And Calpin's prison was

dark energy suffused into the air around there suspiciously similar to Calpin's dark magic." Mirella was a

they would discover such a place just because she felt there

hours away from the Silver Moon pack." Mirella folded her arms across

where my mother used to live..." Abby immediately understood the witch's words. "Did