His Sweet Little Mate

“What happened?” Mirella asked the warrior as he brought an unconscious Ryan down the mountain in the wee hours of the next day. “Where is the Queen and the others?”

She was waiting at the foot of the mountain, under Abby’s request, with several warriors from the Silver Moon pack.

“If things went out of control, you should step in as our back up plan,” she said, before setting off the day before, but from the looks of it, they seemed to have dealt with the situation by themselves.

She could see a few other warriors dragging along a bunch of rogues, who were in a rather bad shape, but none were in a condition as horrible as the ex beta of the Silver Moon pack.

A side of his face was burnt so badly, his healing power didn’t seem to be able to quite catch up to the damage he received, not to mention the charred skin on his hands. “Queen Abby burnt him?”

She asked when the warrior just fidgeted in his place, not answering her earlier questions.

Finally, the warrior opened his mouth. “Yes, it was the Queen’s doing.”

Mirella could breathe a little easier upon confirming that Calpin didn’t appear. If that dark wizard had been there, it would be a lot more difficult.

“So you successfully captured him, but why don’t I see the King and Queen with you?” The witch had this ominous feeling when the warrior tightened his jaw.

“This rogue pushed Queen Abby down the mountain…”

“What did you say?!”

Mirella couldn’t believe her ears when the warrior explained what transpired on the cliff and how the king jumped down the cliff after the queen.

This smells like a recipe for chaos!

From his words, she gathered Dax, the royal gamma had already started combing through the valley.

“The royal gamma wants these rogues locked up in the dungeons until they can find the King and Queen,” another warrior chimed in.

It was obvious they were not happy with this arrangement, because they wanted to help with the search too.

“Okay, I’m going up to help search for them,” Mirella decided on the spot. “Do one thing for me!”

She swiftly wrote something on a paper and asked the warrior to bring the letter to Alpha Samuel. “Not a single soul should know that the king and the queen went missing.”

With that, she sent the warriors off, because Ryan really needed immediate medical attention.

The burns he received were not ordinary, because it was Abby’s fire that caused them.

“It was burnt pretty badly,” the healer of the Silver Moon pack said as she looked at Ryan’s face. She felt a little perplexed that his own healing ability couldn’t help him heal it much, because according to the royal warriors that brought him back, it had been about a quarter day since he was hurt, but it still looked horrible to say the least. Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

“I can’t guarantee my healing power will be able to do much,” she said after taking a good look at his hands.

She had never seen this kind of wound, of course apart from the warriors that died out of nowhere with their skin charred all over until people couldn’t make out even their features.

But she could tell what Ryan faced was different, and there was definitely fire involved unlike those warriors whose lives ended rather abruptly.

She was curious about the cause of Ryan’s wounds, but the warrior shot her down in an instant when she asked about it. He indirectly told her to mind her own business and not to poke her head wherever she pleased.

But she decided to let him understand the gravity of the situation. “He may not heal properly.”

“Do whatever you can.”

That was all she got, before he left her with a whimpering mess of Ryan, who kept crying how painful it was.

“It’s ruined, right?” Ryan suddenly asked, but the woman didn’t answer him, even though the man was someone who wielded so much power until three months ago.

She didn’t have the heart to crush him further by laying out the truth to him, because she felt that the chances his face could be healed were pretty slim.

It was highly likely that he would have to live with a ruined face for eternity!

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All she could feel was air, whooshing past her ears loudly as she fell off the cliff when her father pushed her down, making her still unstable legs give away completely.

But the almost inaudible scream she let escape her lungs was replaced by a shrill plea when she saw something huge and dark following her trajectory down the valley.

“Micah, no!” Abby felt her throat clogging in, but it was pitifully late, because seconds later, his huge limbs engulfed her and by some miracle, he turned them mid air.

“NO, NO!” Abby shook her head against his muzzle, realizing what he was doing, but it didn’t change anything, because a minute later, they collided into something really hard and their descent ended abruptly.

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The sky, which had started brightening up slowly but surely, was going back to dark again, but still there was no sign of the King and Queen.

“We will find them!”

This was the only response Dax gave anyone when they showed a little bit of discouragement.

Mirella joined them before the sun could peek over the horizon, rushing up the mountain, and had been aiding in the search along with the Silver Moon pack warriors.

But with each minute that passed, the royal gamma felt himself getting frantic, because this was not something they could hide.

And if this thing blew up, he couldn’t imagine the chaos that would break out in the entire kingdom.

Thankfully, Mirella wrote to Alpha Samuel, and he would be here any minute with the Red River pack warriors.

Dax looked down the valley, and couldn’t help but dread how deep this valley was. They were losing the sun and it would get even more tricky at night.

Just where were the both of them?