His Sweet Little Mate

“She is my mate.” Micah answered Ruby’s question politely.

Even though she wouldn’t stop trying to step even closer to the King by each second that passed, Micah only talked to her when necessary, always keeping his responses short and direct.

“She is?” Ruby said, trying to sound polite. She then turned around to face Abby completely before giving her a onceover.

When she walked over to Micah earlier, Ruby noticed Abby, but she didn’t think much of her. The girl was so plain she didn’t catch her eye at all. Her clothes, accessories or even the air around her was so simple.

So, the moment Micah said she was his mate, her eyes immediately widened as her face was filled. with surprise.

Apparently, the rumors she heard were true. Micah, her childhood friend, did find his mate. And it was this timid woman in front of her.

Abby frowned when she heard her response. She couldn’t tell what she meant by that, coupled with her appalled face.

Only Ruby recovered too quickly as she smiled broadly. “So you really found her at last.”

She sounded too casual talking to the King of this kingdom. Apart from calling his name, she didn’t try to refrain from following any other custom. “Hi, I’m Ruby. it’s nice meeting you.”

She sounded extra cheerful too, while her words came out too forceful.

Abby could only nod in the face of her greeting. For some reason, she didn’t like this Ruby girl at all.

“We would make great friends.” Ruby said, not bothering with the way Abby tried to refuse her when she skipped over to herself and tried holding her hand.

Definitely don’t like her.

Abby thought as she looked at her evil claws with her discomfort clearly written all over face.

“I think you should go about your day first. Seeing that Abby was uncomfortable around Ruby, Micah stepped in to save the situation.

“Why my king, I haven’t had lunch yet either. And it’s been a long time since we met. We could catch up now,” Ruby said with enthusiasm, not bothering to register how uncomfortable Abby was feeling for being touched by her.

“We can find time later,” Micah said dismissively. It was clear that that time would never come from

his tone.

However, Ruby acted as if she couldn’t take the hint at all as she continued, “Well, Abby might be busy then. Since we decided to become friends, wouldn’t it be better if we start being the same

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Meanwhile, Abby couldn’t believe the audacity of this woman. She never agreed to be friends with this girl.

“But there are only two chairs here,” Micah couldn’t help but point it out, trying to save the hypocritical woman’s face, only she wasn’t easy to get rid of.

“Oh that’s not a problem at all.” Ruby said to Micah before turning around to face her servants. “Fetch me a chair,” she ordered and turned around to talk with Abby again.

“Abby, don’t worry. Let’s go to town tomorrow. I will introduce all my friends to you. You will be well acquainted by the end of this week,” Ruby went ahead and made plans with Abby, without even looking at Micah now.

She was being unusually enthusiastic that Abby felt a whiplash with every sentence that left her lips.

“That won’t be necessary. She is not in a rush. Micah refused her again, unable to keep his cool

anymore.

Since he already refused the idea of having lunch with her, her servants didn’t dare to follow her order and fetch a chair. Even then, Ruby wouldn’t stop.

“How could she not be?” Ruby actually dared to sound disapproving of Micah’s words. “She has no support here, my king, making new friends and connections with important people is necessary.”

Micah’s expression hardened even more hearing what she was trying to imply. He looked at Abby and sure enough, her face fell. The frown on her face from earlier was replaced with a distraught expression.

On the other hand, Ruby still seemed to have something to tell.

And when Micah looked down coldly, not saying anything, Ruby took it as himself thinking over her words. “You know that too. Her background is weak and if she wants to survive in the palace, she could resort to this method.”

Weak is a mild word to describe Abby’s situation. She was basically an orphan with her namesake father being exiled from this kingdom.

The unease Abby felt only intensified as Ruby kept implying how she would be seen as an unsuitable candidate for the position of the Queen of this kingdom.

“Ruby,” Micah sounded so harsh, even Abby felt her heart drop for a second. “You should leave right at this instant.”

Hearing him speak so sternly to herself, Ruby finally realized she had crossed a line.

“I only mean well…” Ruby trailed off when the King cut her a death glare.

“Now,” Micah spoke. His voice was filled with so much authority, Ruby couldn’t stay there anymore. Micah might use his superior alpha dominance on her if she agitated him further and Ruby knew it wouldn’t be pretty anymore.

He was genuinely angry and pushing him only meant wishing for early death. Huffing a bit, Ruby turned around and left with her small

group

“Are you okay?” Micah asked Abby as soon as that annoying fly left his view.

Abby only shook her head in response. They finished their meal in silence as each succumbed to their own trains of thoughts.

After that, micah sent her to their bedroom before going out to go on about his meetings.

“Here you are.” Abby turned around when she felt like she heard this voice somewhere before.

And the person she saw was the last person she wanted to see any day.

“Miss Ruby,” Abby nodded her head in a greeting.

“Abby, you didn’t forget our appointment, did you?” Ruby asked, her eyes filled with strange light..

“But I didn’t agree to it,” Abby couldn’t help but blurt out.

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