“You can leave now,” Abby said, her voice not a decibel more than a whisper.


    Even though she asked to sleep in a different room, and even managed to drag her feet until their


    bedroom without help, ignoring the way her every limb protested for exhausting thest bit of energy


    her body was running on, she feared her vulnerability would make an forced appearance if her mate


    said one more word of apology to her.


    It was also for this reason she didn’t dare to let Micah apologize to her again after his first attempt,


    becasue she knew she would crumble if she were to hear his voice break with sadness one more time.


    ‘Give me a chance to make it up to you,’ he said, but she couldn’t ignore the fact that he couldn’t make


    good of all the oppurtunities he had to avoid hurting her this badly.


    Moreover, Abby didn’t like the way she copsed several times in the span of just twelve hours, be it


    when Micah insisted on proceeding to hold the ceremony earlier or when her mate didn’t think it was


    important enough for her to know what he was thinking, or what was making him restless and


    sleepless.


    Her encounter with Arthur was thest straw for her to break down the way she did when Micah came


    searching


    for her in that safe ce.


    He said she was not even suitable to stand beside Micah, let alone rule this kingdom as its queen and


    his


    destined mate.


    Now Micah’s actions made her nose dive in her insecurities again and the result was; she couldn’t even


    look at his face without feeling this inferiority that always prevented her from talking back to others


    when they bullied


    her.


    All these thoughts whacked her brains, leaving her aching and once Alyssa reached for her, she


    immediately


    melted down.


    She let them take care of her as they fussed over her, trying to rub some heat into her cold body, which


    had long turned numb from overexhaustion.


    Probably, if Micah insisted on refusing her request, she wouldn’t even be able to stop him, but she


    didn’t expect the regret that hit her as soon as the man finally turned back and left, after leaving a small


    order to her personal


    maids.


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    +5


    “Take good care of her,” Micah said, not letting too much emotion seep into his voice, but somehow,


    Abby could feel the amount of remorse her mate tried to conceal and this made her eyes moisten


    again.


    Even then she stubbornly stood by her word and didn’t try to stop him, though she knew she wouldn’t


    get even a wink of sleep when he was not hugging her.


    Only three hourster, Abby found herself still staring at the high chandelier above her head, unable to


    sleep, just like the few nights Micah couldn’t apany her and the girl felt like beating herself up for


    acting so immaturely earlier.


    “I should have forgiven him when he apologized,” she mumbled to herself as she couldn’t even cry


    anymore at her own stupidity.


    Around an hour after he left, the adrenaline rush that made her act like a crazy woman finally


    evaporated into thin air and she was finally able to calm down a bit.


    But with calm came rity about what she actually did to herself and how she forgot what was


    important to her.


    How did she even think shunning him away would solve her problems? She just didn’t know when to


    stop!


    “You are in stupid, that is why Arthur could always find faults with you…”


    Abby couldn’t help but knock her head, but it only made her headache worse. She reached for the


    ss of water


    on the bedside table and saw the tray of food Micah sent for her.


    “Queen Abby, you didn’t eat anything all day, please have something to fill your stomach,” Alyssa and


    Reyna pleaded with her earlier, but she didn’t listen and now she was suffering.


    Her stomach growled, but the food would have turned cold long back. But to her surprise, she saw a


    small pouch


    of candied fruits on the table and she immediately on


    them while sipping on the water from the ss.


    With every piece that made its way down her throat, Abby could feel her heart bing heavy for


    hurting Micah with her words and actions, just because she was hurt by him. Looking back, even she


    could tell the king didn’t do it intentionally.


    Her reaction was a bit too over the top, given the way he took care of her from the moment they met.


    He had always been thoughtful and patient enough when it came to her, but she couldn’t return the


    courtesy when he slipped up for the first time.


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    +5


    Just because she was his mate, he had even angered so many people…


    “He had done so much for me, yet I’m being an ungrateful brat, What if he gets tired of me…?


    Thinking so much was never a good thing, and it was proved once again when Abby let her


    abandonment issue dominate her every other truth.


    She couldn’t be med though, her own father and older sister abandoned her emotionally for a


    decade, not even pitying her for defeating death with war scars.


    Instead, they called her a monster, pointing at the huge burn scar that extended from the left side of her


    neck, down to her left shoulder, covering a huge portion of her back.


    It only needed a single one of their own reasons to abandon and abuse her, reasons she didn’t actively


    take part in, meanwhile, she was giving reasons to Micah herself now.


    “If he gets tired, he may think what his father and the others had been preaching to him was indeed


    correct…”


    Abby felt her throat be dry just at the possibility.


    “Then he might send me away…”


    Abby almost dropped the candy pouch when she stood up so abruptly, she was surprised she didn’t trip


    over nothing.


    She immediately tied the pouch back and clutched it to her heart. Alyssa and Reyna helped her change


    into afortable dress after wiping her face and hands with hot water earlier and she couldn’t be


    grateful enough to them.


    Because, if she were to run around in that grand ceremonial dress, even though it was a spare one, in


    search of her mate, it would be quite cumbersome.


    Yes, she didn’t want to wait until morning to talk to Micah, because she feared he wouldn’t have time


    for her once he was dragged away to investigate the captured rogues to dig information on Calpin.


    If she apologized to him quickly, she might be able to evade any disaster that maye her way,


    disasters like being abandoned by her own mate.


    “Yes, apologize to him and make up with him,” Abby decided.


    3/6


    +5


    She didn’t wait another second, because in less than an hour, the sun would hit the horizon, and Micah


    would be


    hoarded by his responsibilities again.


    In order to achieve her goal of not alerting anyone, Abby moved as quietl


    possible, because she was afraid


    someone would stop her, saying it was dangerous to wander around with the issue of rogues still


    heating up the entire pce.


    “Now I can move freely,” Abby thought aloud, as she turned at the corner that would lead her to the


    king’s study.


    It was still dark in this corridor, but thenterns along the walls were bright enough to at least illuminate


    her path.


    However, when she was just a few steps away from the door to the study, where she could see a few


    warriors


    watching guard, someone closed her mouth from behind and dragged her away in the opposite


    direction.


    Because ofck of energy, she couldn’t put up a fight, but when she tried to bite her attacker’s hand,


    that person knocked her out and everything went ck.


    Leaving Abby in someone else’s care when she was angry at himself didn’t sit well with Micah at all.


    But he felt it was the right thing to let her calm down first, because she was too emotional to ept that


    even. someone like him could slip up sometimes.


    He swore he would run to her side before the sun rose in the morning, but his heart couldn’t calm down


    no


    matter what.


    He was afraid he would only see her tear filled face, that was contorted in hurt, pain caused by him, the


    moment he closed his eyes. Because, even looking at the reports made that image rerun in his e


    Her silent sobs kept haunting him, and he spent the whole night pacing back and forth in his study.


    “What if she wouldn’t give me a chance to repent?”


    No matter whom you took in her life, everyone only caused her endless heartache. On the day he met


    her, he swore he would spare her even the slightest grievance, but he didn’t expect to cause only pain


    and harm to her.


    Micah wouldn’t be able to live with it if his precious mate thought he was just like everyone else in her


    life. He


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    wasn’t and he was going to prove it to her regardless of whatever it took.


    He needed to make her understand that he was different from Ryan, her father and Hanna, her older


    sister, or anyone else for that matter.


    “I’ll make things straight with her,” Micah promised to himself. “I’ll do her right.”


    +5


    If need be, he would apologize until her sweet heart gave into him, because he couldn’t stay away from


    her for. another minute.


    These few hours already felt like hell, he didn’t want a repeat of it. He knew his mistake and he would


    correct it.


    With his priorities set, Micah dashed out of his study as soon as some light seeped into the room


    through the opened window, indicating the sun was about to rise.


    “Little one?” He called out from outside of the door the moment he reached her room, but he didn’t get


    any


    response from inside which prompted him to push the door open himself.


    However, the room was empty, not even her personal maids could be seen.


    “What the hell is happening here?” He growled, making the people that stood guard outside their room


    tremble


    in fear. “Where is your queen and her maids?”


    Even though Micah panicked a little at first, the thought that the girl might have gone on a walk made


    him ask


    them the second question, only the answer he got was something he didn’t hope to hear at this


    moment.


    No one knew where Abby was and the personal maids that came running a few minutester didn’t


    have a positive answer to him either.


    “Queen Abby said she wanted to be alonest night,” Alyssa reported and real panic hit Micah hard.


    He frantically searched all over the pce, with assistance from the few guards, but to no avail.


    “This is nuts!!” He roared and the aura that emanated from him screamed danger, making them all


    cower in fear.


    “Get the royal beta and royal gamma here.”


    He couldn’t believe Abby was abducted right in his pce, where he thought was the safest for her,


    and this made him go crazy.


    5/6


    -5


    He seeked the mate bond between them, and the amount of relief he felt when he realized it was still


    intact was iparable.


    It took him less than fifteen minutes to assemble every warrior, both elite and the second. ranked


    warriors, front of the pce, as he prepared to march into the capital city to scour for her.


    in


    No matter how hard they tried, they wouldn’t have gone far from the pce since they needed to act


    with caution while evading the royal warriors that patrolled the city.


    However, just before he could dispatch the soldiers, Arthur, his father and the former king, rushed over


    to block him.


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