His Sweet Little Mate by Obticeo Decatect

"Make preparations for our departure tomorrow." She threw over her shoulder as she turned around to go to her study. "Yes, Your Highness!"

Alyssa was about to do a curtsy, to receive her master's order out of habit, but before she could even react, she heard this hoarse voice from behind her, which almost made her scream at the top of her lungs. "Heavens!" Alyssa wanted to scold the culprit for scaring her, but when she turned around, her voice died down immediately, because she saw a burly shifter, sporting this blank expression on his cold face. Just looking at him made shivers run down her spine, not to mention he was wearing the signature armor of the elite royal warriors back from the palace.

"Oh my god, why do you move like a shadow, it's creepy!" She muttered under her breath, as she tactfully turned around to run after her master when it seemed like the man heard her little petty complaint. However, the man didn't seem to care enough to settle scores with her for treating him with 'hostility,' as he turned around to immerse himself in the preparations for the queen's departure.

"My Queen, your new guard is like a statue, no, he is a creep!" Alyssa complained to Abby once she realized the man didn't follow them to Abby's study.

"Deion?" Abby was surprised. "What did he do to you?"

"He moves so silently, I can't get used to his stealthiness." Alyssa looked genuinely annoyed, making Abby laugh.

She thought the man somehow bullied her personal maid, but as it turned out, he was just doing his job.

But then how could Abby think badly of him when he was personally chosen by Micah as her personal guard? She was just overprotective of Alyssa, because after Micah, if there were people who she cared about, that would be Alyssa and Reyna.

Dax could be considered her kindred spirit, while she adored Nadia. If Ezgar didn't turn out to be a bastard, she could also have had a big brother figure. But she didn't want to think about him now. She turned to her unhappy maid instead.

"I told you he will be following me around from now on, didn't I? So he is just doing his job." Abby said, brushing off Alyssa's complaints. Stealthy or not, if he did his job right, that was all that mattered to her. When Micah said she needed to have someone following her around, she didn't think he was talking about allocating a personal warrior to her. However, Micah seemed to have long planned to give her a personal warrior, because just before the king departed, Deion reported to be her security personnel.

Micah then simply said that Deion would follow her around, no matter if Micah was present or had to go away to deal with impromptu obstacles.

Even though Abby believed she could protect herself, she didn't discourage Micah from having this extra assurity. Moreover, this new guard of hers knew what he was doing, so she didn't have any complaints. "You are right." Alyssa could only agree, because following Queen Abby around was not something she or Reyna alone could do anymore, because King Micah made that cold statue called Deion rush here to protect her master from now on. "But, you are not used to this either, right?"

"I'm not, but I don't find it annoying. It's only you." Abby ruthlessly pointed out how her maid was a little scaredy cat. "Why don't you help me pack my things? After that, go and check if Nadia has everything for our trip back to the capital."

"Okay." Alyssa agreed and left to do her things. She had less than a day to make sure Abby's trip back to the palace would be comfortable enough, now that she was pregnant.

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and three days later, because they traveled a little slowly, they finally reached the capital city before the sun

and Abby could feel this tense air around her. But she didn't let herself spiral into the vortex

She patted herself mentally as

"My Queen."

as he led the royal warriors and guards around them

rise to their feet as

room first,"

you just traveled for three days straight, why don't you rest for

she was that worried about her, and she believed Nadia would support her, but Abby didn't look like she was ready to listen to anyone right

to talk about with the royal beta. Why don't you go and arrange something delicious for breakfast?" She then turned to Nadia. "I believe you will take good

like that, Reyna, who had been watching from the door for her turn to persuade the queen to rest, like Alyssa did, had to follow her fellow maid back to the kitchen

looked at Deion, but the man decisively evaded her eyes, clearly indicating that

to the strategy room, outside where Deion finally stopped following Abby like a shadow, as he assumed a position right before the door after Alan and Abby closed the door behind them. Abby found her new guard truly reliable, because most of the time, she didn't need to struggle about communicating with him, as he would always

the couch in the strategy room and settled down

took his seat, he could hear Abby talking

been facing a few difficult situations." Micah already told

the capital was a

didn't look ideal at all, but before Micah could do anything, he was forced

Abby asked after

if to confirm her question and when he saw her serious expression, he answered her truthfully. "Rumors are spreading really fast, My Queen. You should have waited for Micah

Alan felt that way, because it would have been much easier if Micah announced the pregnancy news, but the queen had a clear goal for declining her

then." Abby shook her head when Alan was about to say something. "What else were they saying apart from

be more bad things to fuel the unhappiness of the civilians, and Alan's words confirmed