His Sweet Little Mate by Obticeo Decatect

"Even if you can't bring yourself to care enough about me, you should think about Arlo." Abby was patient enough to continue her monologue when Arthur couldn't muster enough courage to admit a woman way younger than him had a valid point in her explanation. However, she could tell the man was genuinely thinking about her proposal about joining hands with her to fight the actual enemy. He just needed a little push, and she had the right kind of weapon in her arsenal.

"Mirella is back with some really potential leads." Abby could immediately see the wheels turning in his head.

"Leads on Calpin?" Arthur asked breathlessly, as if even saying his name left his stomach churning uncomfortably. "What kind of lead? A location?"

"Well, we still have to investigate a little."

"What do you mean?" Arthur was confused now, how could she not know?

"We couldn't get to the interrogation part yet, as they were busy dealing with you. If you had just let them breathe for a second, they could have done something about the investigation." Abby sighed when the man couldn't put two and two together. "It is like this, Mirella captured one of his followers...."

She then explained how Alan and Dax were busy with his little shitshow in the great hall, which infinitesimally delayed any interrogation Mirella hoped to get done in the protection of the palace. If the royal beta and royal gamma weren't occupied with dealing with Arthur's scheming on top of their other responsibilities, they would have gotten something out of that captive by now.

"So what you are saying is..." Arthur couldn't bring himself to complete that sentence. Well, his mind failed him after the word 'is.

"We need to work together if we want to capture Calpin, you interfering only hindering any progress I painstakingly made."

There was that word 'interfering' again, he couldn't tell if she was mocking him or not. But the words next left her lips grinded his thoughts to a screeching halt.

"If we can trace Calpin, I'm sure we can save Micah..."

"You lost your mind. Woman, can you stop daydreaming for a second?" Arthur hissed when Abby brought up his son being alive again. "How can you still be so stubborn that you can't distinguish delusions from reality?"

had died, countless warriors saw him being burned alive by that bastard dark magic user and then turning to nothing but dust, but here his mate was, still being delusional that by some miracle, Micah would

him no matter water. He wanted to shake her

how exasperated the former king was, but her claims weren't really baseless. Only

is still alive? No, that's not right! You are really crazy

started pacing, unable to do anything else in his desperation to make this woman understand how absurd her

seemed to have conveyed her thoughts clearly to the former king, he almost stumbled midstep. Well, this was awkward. If she turned insane, he would be the happiest,

until no sound came out of

a way, it sounded completely opposite to

like you thought. There's no chance I'm wrong

be so sure?" Arthur felt talking with Abby only killed a few brain

"What?"

looked at him funnily. "I don't think

when Arthur looked like he suddenly couldn't comprehend even

so you are saying the mate bond is still intact? Then can you feel him on the other end?" Arthur got a little agitated. But he didn't realize he

Arthur looked hopeful when Abby nodded in affirmation. "Then... then... what do you want

felt it was hard to wrap his head around the concept of joining hands with Abby, so it was

Micah on the other end of the bond or not, feeling the bond itself was a huge positive sign. If Micah had really died, the bond would have shattered long back, and Abby wouldn't have been able to stand straight even if she wanted to fake through

he didn't realize Abby didn't feel crushed, both

was no way the royal gamma could come back without his king if he was still